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Poll: How do you commute to/from work?

RossMAN

RossMAN

Grand Nagus
I drove to work this morning because I missed the bus (yet again), damn Hot Deals made me late again!

While I was sitting in a long line of traffic waiting to get onto the Ross Island Bridge, I was appalled at all the cars which only had ONE OCCUPANT ... whatever happened to walking/biking, taking mass transit or carpooling?

For the record, 90% of the time I take mass transit because you get to meet all sorts of interesting folk, smell new scents, get all sorts of germs, oh yeah and it's A LOT cheaper than driving & parking in downtown Portland, Oregon.

I like how I-5 has a commuter only lane where during certain hours of the morning/evening traffic, only vehicles with 2 or more passengers can use this single fast lane. Sorry blow up dolls don't qualify (although I'm tested to try this out, anyone got a blow up doll I can borrow?).

So how do you get to/from work?
 
I drive alone. Probably the same price as a bus because I don't have to pay to park. Plus I like to play my stereo. 😀
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
I drove to work this morning because I missed the bus (yet again), damn Hot Deals made me late again!

I was appalled at all the cars which only had ONE OCCUPANT ... whatever happened to walking/biking, taking mass transit or carpooling?
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Didnt you drive to work alone?

-PAB

EDIT: I now see the hypocrisy has been debunked. Oops.
 
I agree people should carpool if at all possible. My brother works along the way to my work.... and my mom works in the same building as me (different companies). Unfortunately, we don't go in at the same times. My mom at 8am, my bro at 9am, and me at... whenever (sometimes work from home, sometimes 10am, etc). So we each drive separate cars. If times coincide, I'd do it, but my mom doesn't like listening to MetallicA in the car anyway. 😉 It's only 4 miles away here in the burbs. I'm moving into my own house in T-minus 10 days.
 
No choice for roll out of bed, walk 20' and logon. 😛

Sometimes I take a detour to bathroom.
 
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: RossMAN
I drove to work this morning because I missed the bus (yet again), damn Hot Deals made me late again!

I was appalled at all the cars which only had ONE OCCUPANT ... whatever happened to walking/biking, taking mass transit or carpooling?
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Didnt you drive to work alone?

-PAB

EDIT: I now see the hypocrisy has been debunked. Oops.
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Yes but my alter ego was with me, I was cursing & swearing at the idiot Oregon drivers ... it's amazing what profanity can spew from one's mouth when you're half awake and stroking the steering wheel of a beautiful 2002 Honda Accord SE.

That reminds me, the other day I registered my Accord with http://www.hondafinancialservices.com/ and learned the color is actually FIREPEPPER RUBY RED not the RUBY PEARL RED we were informed 🙁
 
Driving with other peopel sucks. They always complain about how loud the music is, etc.

Mass transit sucks because I would have to drive just to get to a bus stop.... assusming I got to a bus stop, it doesn't go where I need to go.

Its a mile just to the end of my apartment complex... let alone the next 5 miles to campus.

It is too cold to ride a bike 6 miles to school. Windchill this morning was 5 degrees F.

Spac3d
 
In DC, there are charter buses that take people to work. They're great, because as a form of public transportation, the gov will pay for them. And with carpooling, I ended up spending like $.15 a week to commute to work, with no mileage on my car. And you get to sleep on the bus! A hell of a lot better than driving in heavy traffic every day for three hours, and putting a hundred miles a day on your car, plus gas.
 
I ride my bike, almost every day regardless of weather. I wimped out yesterday, took the car and was almost immediately sorry I had done so. I spent most of my time sitting in gridlock picking my nose and wishing I'd just gotten on my bike. The whole trip (all of about 7 miles by car) took me about 45 minutes thanks to all the traffic as opposed to the 30 minutes it takes if I ride my bike (since I'm not subject to gridlock on the bike). To illustrate how annoying my commute was, I have prepared the following graphical presentation...the area shown represents about 2/3 of my total commute....red star is my office.

Yellow represents the route I take by car to work

Red represents the areas where traffic was gridlocked and barely moving (time it took to get through each area of gridlock is noted since I had a watch on and had nothing better to do)

Blue represents my bike route (total time for this portion of the ride is also noted)

Amazing, isn't it?

EDIT- for those of you who may ask, the blue route is not an option by car since it cuts through a few parks and other areas that are not accessible by anything other than bike or feet. There's no way to avoid the gridlock.
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I ride my bike, almost every day regardless of weather. I wimped out yesterday, took the car and was almost immediately sorry I had done so. I spent most of my time sitting in gridlock picking my nose and wishing I'd just gotten on my bike. The whole trip (all of about 7 miles by car) took me about 45 minutes thanks to all the traffic as opposed to the 30 minutes it takes if I ride my bike (since I'm not subject to gridlock on the bike). To illustrate how annoying my commute was, I have prepared the following graphical presentation...the area shown represents about 2/3 of my total commute....red star is my office.

Yellow represents the route I take by car to work

Red represents the areas where traffic was gridlocked and barely moving (time it took to get through each area of gridlock is noted since I had a watch on and had nothing better to do)

Blue represents my bike route (total time for this portion of the ride is also noted)

Amazing, isn't it?

EDIT- for those of you who may ask, the blue route is not an option by car since it cuts through a few parks and other areas that are not accessible by anything other than bike or feet. There's no way to avoid the gridlock.
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you live next to druids!?

OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I ride my bike, almost every day regardless of weather. I wimped out yesterday, took the car and was almost immediately sorry I had done so. I spent most of my time sitting in gridlock picking my nose and wishing I'd just gotten on my bike. The whole trip (all of about 7 miles by car) took me about 45 minutes thanks to all the traffic as opposed to the 30 minutes it takes if I ride my bike (since I'm not subject to gridlock on the bike). To illustrate how annoying my commute was, I have prepared the following graphical presentation...the area shown represents about 2/3 of my total commute....red star is my office.

Yellow represents the route I take by car to work

Red represents the areas where traffic was gridlocked and barely moving (time it took to get through each area of gridlock is noted since I had a watch on and had nothing better to do)

Blue represents my bike route (total time for this portion of the ride is also noted)

Amazing, isn't it?

EDIT- for those of you who may ask, the blue route is not an option by car since it cuts through a few parks and other areas that are not accessible by anything other than bike or feet. There's no way to avoid the gridlock.
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Wow that is amazing! You can get some exercise and get to work in a shorter amount of time.

 
i pay $120 - $145 a month for my vanpool & get a $100 rebate every month, so
my net cost is a lot lower than if i drove (about 100 miles/day).

OTOH, you have to learn to compromise in a vanpool on things like inside temperature,
radio station, etc..
 
Originally posted by: prontospyder
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I ride my bike, almost every day regardless of weather. I wimped out yesterday, took the car and was almost immediately sorry I had done so. I spent most of my time sitting in gridlock picking my nose and wishing I'd just gotten on my bike. The whole trip (all of about 7 miles by car) took me about 45 minutes thanks to all the traffic as opposed to the 30 minutes it takes if I ride my bike (since I'm not subject to gridlock on the bike). To illustrate how annoying my commute was, I have prepared the following graphical presentation...the area shown represents about 2/3 of my total commute....red star is my office.

Yellow represents the route I take by car to work

Red represents the areas where traffic was gridlocked and barely moving (time it took to get through each area of gridlock is noted since I had a watch on and had nothing better to do)

Blue represents my bike route (total time for this portion of the ride is also noted)

Amazing, isn't it?

EDIT- for those of you who may ask, the blue route is not an option by car since it cuts through a few parks and other areas that are not accessible by anything other than bike or feet. There's no way to avoid the gridlock.
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Wow that is amazing! You can get some exercise and get to work in a shorter amount of time.
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That's the general idea. 😎

The other benefit is that I'm not completely pissed off upon arriving at work since I wasn't sitting in traffic. It's a little hard to get going on the bike some mornings (it was like 28 when I left the house today), but I'm always glad I did once I get warmed up.

 
carpool half the way with my wife and she drops me off then continues the next 5 minutes to her job. It sucks only haveing one car at times, but it works out well that our places of employment are 10 minutes apart during rush hour
 
I bike unless I'm crippled like now then it's by car. My left leg has been in a cast for the past 10 weeks with no know date of removal. And my right leg will be in a cast in a couple of weeks. So I guesss you could say I'll commute via wheel chair.
 
I drive alone. It's my only option since i can't bike (i wish i could actually) to where i work due to the nieghborhoods and carpooling is not an option.
 
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