Quote:is the bus system that bad? I don't plan on being without a car for long.

 

It's not good. 

 

Jacksonville is the largest city by land mass in the contiguous 48.  It's massive, and it's spread out.  Unless you plan on living on a bus route, and having a job on that same bus route, you're going to be spending a lot of time hoofing it to a bus stop, then going through the multiple transfers required to get from point A to point B. 

 

If you don't have a car or some other form of transportation in Jacksonville, the public transportation is ill equipped to serve your needs.  You're better off buying an old beater of a car that you can rely on to get around town. 

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