Ah, but that is driving ON the job, not driving TO the job. You live within walking distance of your job. You can decide not to go to the post office during rush hour, or reschedule a trip if there's a blizzard.
Bad poll designgwendallyJanuary 25 2015, 19:05:07 UTC
I meant to have "Rarely or never drive" as an option. I can't edit the poll. I'm sure I designed it terribly in other ways, too. Polls are surprisingly hard to write!
Re: Bad poll designandrewduckerJanuary 25 2015, 20:54:06 UTC
Have updated mine to the "Rarely" option, as I never drive to work.
I'm 15-ish minutes from work by bus. There's nowhere to park anywhere near the office that doesn't cost a fortune (around £24/day - $36), and very constrained parking near my flat. As a bus pass costs me £45/month for unlimited travel in the city, my choice was pretty quick :->
I can plausibly walk to work; I drive in the depths of winter because I'm quite prone to respiratory infections, the damage from which gets worse if I take them out in sub-zero temperatures.
Lately I've been finding excuses to drive to work because I don't want to walk down an icy hill. Work is 8 buildings away, roughly one city block. It takes as long to get my car out of the garage and park on the other end as walking does. It's just that, well, I hate walking on ice. It makes me feel unsafe. Really really unsafe.
In our neighborhood the elementary school is probably 2000 feet away from my house. We don't have bus service because almost everyone lives within a mile of school. It's interesting to see who walks and who drives their kids. Most walk or ride bikes, but a few drive (they're also the who park the wrong way along the curb). They actually tend to be more careless drivers around the neighborhood generally, probably because their brains don't associate our streets with pedestrians, even though there are zillions.
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ETA: do you have this icon? Feel free to steal it. :-)
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I'm 15-ish minutes from work by bus. There's nowhere to park anywhere near the office that doesn't cost a fortune (around £24/day - $36), and very constrained parking near my flat. As a bus pass costs me £45/month for unlimited travel in the city, my choice was pretty quick :->
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When I was employed as a Big 4 senior manager, I drove to work. I would hate having to commute by public transport. And I like driving.
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In our neighborhood the elementary school is probably 2000 feet away from my house. We don't have bus service because almost everyone lives within a mile of school. It's interesting to see who walks and who drives their kids. Most walk or ride bikes, but a few drive (they're also the who park the wrong way along the curb). They actually tend to be more careless drivers around the neighborhood generally, probably because their brains don't associate our streets with pedestrians, even though there are zillions.
Much of safety resides in the brain, methinks.
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