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   9/10/09

   Halconite

   I am. Can't afford to have even a scooter...

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      9/10/09

      deviki

      Yeah for me and you LOL
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   9/10/09

   Hels

   Anyone who uses private transport in the _centre_ of a city is adding to pollution, crowded streets, a waste of limited petrol resources and is taking up parking space. We gave great trains and trams.. there is no excuse for private cars in town.
   
   Travel in the outer suburbs, and travel between cities, are entirely different problems.

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      9/11/09

      deviki

      yeah I'm with you on that !!
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      9/12/09

      SweetViolet

      What if you have to get from the outer suburbs to the city?
      
      I tried public tranport to work for a week. This is what I discovered:
      
      It took twice as long.
      
      It did not save me any money...in fact, the fare, over a week, was more than what I put in my gas tank for the week.
      
      The last bus left my workplace ten minutes before I was supposed to get off work...did not make my employer happy.
      
      I had to drive anyway...five miles to the nearest "Park and Ride" site.
      
      The "Park and Ride" was in a bad part of town and the parking lot was largely deserted when I got there in the evenings...as a lone woman I had to walk out into the parking lot alone...after dark...in a dangerous part of town. No security guards, no escorts...a mugging (or worse) just waiting to happen,
      
      The industrial park where I worked did not have any sidewalks. I had to walk...in the dark...in the road for three blocks to get my bus home.
      
      Some of the people on the bus had not bathed in aeons and I saw at least one person with lice. Those things can jump from one person to another!! No thank you.
      
      I lasted a week and then I was back to polluting (although I doubt my little sport truck pumped as much crap into the air as that bus and its suffocating plumes of black diesel exhaust).
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   9/10/09

   HollytheHousewife

   Well I live in the burbs,don't have public trans.,but I do walk a lot.

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      9/11/09

      deviki

      Hey walking is very good for the body ....i have to walk to the train station too
4. 

   9/11/09

   idealpinkrose

   Oh, I have a driver (my hubby), hehehe.. We go to work together and he drives to work.

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   9/12/09

   praning5254

   everyday I travel using public utility vehicles
   because I still can't afford the dear price of private cars and the oil price that's always soaring up high... sigh

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   9/12/09

   jjmezzio

   Me.
   
   I go to work by bus follows with a monorail and then top it with a 10 minute walk to office.
   
   I go home by feet follows by light rail transit and then a bus.
   
   I just like to walk. It feels so adventurous.

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      9/12/09

      SweetViolet

      What if you had to walk 5 miles (8 kms) to the bus, some of it through dangerous neighbourhoods and in the dark?
      
      Would you have a private vehicle if the cost of owning and operating it were within your means?
      
      The only public transport I use nowadays in airplanes. And even with that, sometimes I prefer to drive.
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      9/12/09

      jjmezzio

      I spoke on behalf of the environment that I am living in.
      
      I've walked home from my office by feet before (6+ kms = 2 hour 15 minutes walk). It wasn't a problem for me since brisk walk is part of my daily workout. Also again, I live in a safe environment.
      
      I have a very good earning but as I've told my colleagues, I have never been interested in buying a car. So to answer your question, no I'm not interested in having my own private vehicle.
      
      I will only buy one if I have to move to a different city or country with environment that demands me to have my own vehicle. But for now, no.
      
      If you are comfortable using your own transportation, great as it is your own preference. If you live in a high crime and dangerous neighborhood then of course it would be wise to use a transportation. Preferably your own.
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      9/12/09

      SweetViolet

      I didn't live in a dangerous area, but I couldn't get to the public transport without passing through it.
      
      Frankly, the two hours each way on public transport was WAY too much time. A single person with few obligations may not feel the pinch, but those extra hours ate into my home time, my sleep, my ability to interact with my family. Getting off work at 5, getting home at 7, putting food on the table at 8...children's bedtime...just did not work for me.
      
      And, it obviously did not work for my neighbours, either.
      
      The upside of my experiment, however, was that it gave me considerable empathy for those who MUST use public transport. I do not require my domestic workers to stay here for some arbitrary time to arrive...when their work is done, they can go home...with full pay. It gives them incentive to work efficiently and get done early so they can go home early. I encourage that...my maid is usually done with her work by 3 and I send her out the door...why keep her until 5? She has kids and has to struggle with public transport...I can understand how an extra two hours can be important to her!
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      9/12/09

      deviki

      yeah walking helps me think better and i take more time to relax that way
7. 

   9/12/09

   writings

   me

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   9/12/09

   jjmezzio

   Double post. My mistake.

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   9/12/09

   TJlubrano

   I use public transport as well, it's easier and I have a student pass so during the week it's free. In the weekend I usually have the car.

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      9/12/09

      deviki

      wow that's nice man i wish we had that for all the students here
10. 

    9/12/09

    cookingasshole

    Since I live in the city I walk, bike, or take the train everywhere

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    9/12/09

    timethief

    Question: So just how many of you travel to work or just going anywhere you want using public transport ?
    
    Answer: I work at home. I paint in my own studio on the ground floor and I do research and writing contract work on my computer upstairs. When I visit the city I use public transit. Here in the country we do not have public transit, so I walk and carpool when the distance is too far for walking.

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    9/12/09

    Shiley

    I use the bus.
    
    My husband usually has the car and I need to work on getting my driver's license reinstated. I've been driving since babyhood (before they had laws placing kids in seat belts)

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13. 

    9/12/09

    quack18

    i was living an england manchester for a year, and wow, i was amazed by the public transport there, it was soo efficient and useful, prefered it alot than using the car which i use now back home.

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       9/12/09

       Hels

       quack18, isn't that the truth!
       
       If a city has reliable, clean and fast public transport, people will use it. If a city has no public transport, or it is unreliable and unpleasant, people will feel forced into private cars.
       
       How stupid some cities are
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    9/12/09

    Funkkeejooce

    My husband and I go together to work and we use the car. We live outside the town, and we're quite isolated therefore, public transport is not an option. I have taken public transport to work, but that was in a different era and different circumstance. Public transport have advantages and disadvantages depending on each individual's situation for example time, convinience, accessibility, etc. Unfortunately for some there isn't an option at all.

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    9/12/09

    curlydesigh

    Not since I moved to Atlanta. I drive everywhere now. I almost miss the moving petri dish know as the NYC's subways.

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    9/12/09

    FaithfulinPrayer

    There is no public trans from where I live to where I work. Wish there was.

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    9/12/09

    NatetheGrate

    I take public transportation because it's good for the environment and easy because I live in a city, but I do have a car. I don't use it much because gas is so expensive now, but transit is getting so expensive that it's becoming a luxury, too.

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    9/12/09

    nothingprofound

    I mostly walk everywhere. I have a car, but rarely use it.

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19. 

    9/12/09

    snappysparrow

    ME! -- photochism.blogspot.com/2009/08/jeepney-ride.html

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20. 

    9/12/09

    bettieblogger

    I take the bus downtown then walk to where I need to go from there ... most of what I need to do is within a 5-10 block radius.

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