GBH reporters raced from Boston to Worcester. Here's what they learned 

You can watch the video about the train v car commute from Worcester to Boston here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HNnx88sx1cQ.html

The car had $7.50 parking in Boston. My office parking garage charges $23 in downtown. They also left very early at 6AM. Try this race at 7AM or 8AM or from Boston at 5PM.

Horribly researched reporting. I traveled the Worcester to Boston commuter route for three months via car. It always took more than two hours each direction and their stated figures don't include the astronomical cost of parking. It cost me more than $1000 a month just to commute to work. The commute alone was draining my savings. I also traveled via train for three years… it took longer (at least 2 1/2 hours each direction), cost more than $500 a month (because you have to pay to park at a train station too), and I was barely breaking even due to commuter costs. Whether by car or by train, your finances and your free time are consumed by the commute. Road rage is dangerous and terrifying. The trains are never cleaned so are disgustingly dirty and they pack you in, often with broken heat or broken AC. There was an express train. The timing was so bad, most riders’ employers demanded they be at work before the train even left Worcester. With breakdowns, accidents, and overwhelming numbers of commuters, by car by train, the average commute is over 5 1/2 hours a day and you're well above $500 a month.

We need to challenge our politicians to commute at their expense by MBTA to and from the statehouse for half the legislative session so they can understand the problems of the commuters.

The cost of a trip by car is NOT only associated with the cost of fuel. Car payment, car insurance, maintenance. This video does not tell the whole story.

I'll love for all of the commuter rail lines to connection to subway/trolley lines instead of going to north and south station all of the time.

I didn't have a car when they reopened Union Station. It seemed great that there would be more access to Boston. It never occurred to me that it would devastate the city by causing so many Boston people and Biotech people to move here and "price out" everyone that really lived here. It's not just that rents and home prices have tripled, there simply isn't room, and contractors are taking advantage every way they can.

It was once possible to take commuter services from Boston all the way to Philly and NYC and Portland Maine by Trolly and rail services in this state numerous times a day. In the 1950s and early 60s we lost all that and the obsession with automobiles took over as part of the reaction to the Eisenhower Interstate system. Politicians and money overrode the needs of the public.

You forgot the cost of parking

Now do it when there is traffic and the car trip takes twice as long and the train is the same.

Why don't we just add bike Lanes?

Yet again you completely ignore the costs of owning and maintaining a car, and you also ignore monthly passes reduce the individual fare per ride considerably on commuter rail. This is not an apples to apples comparison.

Commuter rail in the Boston area is a joke - that is a friendly description. The tracks are old and rumbly allowing slow speeds only. Then we are riding in old, stinky, noisy, rumbly and inefficient diesel engines instead of having this thing electrified. Why are the trains super super heavy, instead of light-weight trains that can accelerate and stop faster, are quieter and have less impact on the neighborhoods they rumble through. Oh, yes, we still have rail-crossings on the streets. And that all for service that is usually unreliable (include connections in your calculations) and quite expensive. Do we need money for it? Sure. Why not charging I93, RT3 and RT24 riders from NH and RI, they do the same to us from Massachusetts. Allow ticket-by-camera processes for speeding, red lights, parking on buslanes etc. and use the ticket money to transform our public transport systems.

If you connect a train line between Boston and Springfield it would be like a 3 hour train ride one way, train tickets prices would be insane, and the cost of living out there might go up!!!

Biden took the train home from DC each day while serving as Senator…