For me, I usually accept around +50% of travel time for the convinience of beeing able to browse lemmy, watching videos or reading in general on public transport. Then it doesnt feel like I wasted my time like I would have taking the car.

Trans is just trains without an i

I know, but thats what OP from screenshots suggestion most likely was.

You are way overthinking it, the problem suggested by OP is much simpler: it‘s all about the mercator projection of the map.