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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Martinus on October 22, 2011, 11:46:34 AM

Poll
Question: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Option 1: Yes (and I don't own a car) votes: 9
Option 2: Yes (and I own a car) votes: 4
Option 3: No (I use a car) votes: 18
Option 4: No (I use taxis) votes: 0
Option 5: No (I mainly walk) votes: 4
Option 6: No, I don't leave my basement (Raz option) votes: 1
Option 7: No (other reason) votes: 1
Title: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Martinus on October 22, 2011, 11:46:34 AM
Inspired by the mechanic thread.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Syt on October 22, 2011, 11:52:32 AM
Yeah, but the public transit system in Vienna is one of the best for a city its size.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Josquius on October 22, 2011, 11:56:43 AM
Day to day no, work is 10 minutes bike ride away.
When I go outside the city though usually yes.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Iormlund on October 22, 2011, 12:02:25 PM
Used to, but I need a car for work.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 22, 2011, 12:04:18 PM
What am I, poor?
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Zanza on October 22, 2011, 12:18:03 PM
Yes, but I consider getting a car when my annual ticket runs out because my new place of work isn't reached as conveniently with public transport as my previous place of work was.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: PDH on October 22, 2011, 12:27:12 PM
Since I live in likely the only city in Wyoming that has public transportation throughout the main parts of the city, I could.  But, since I am an American I don't.  Public transportation is for communists/fascists/hippies/losers.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 22, 2011, 12:28:49 PM
Also, isn't this the kijillionth pubic transportation thread?
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Grey Fox on October 22, 2011, 12:52:48 PM
No.

:lol:
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: The Brain on October 22, 2011, 01:06:20 PM
Palanquin.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 22, 2011, 01:19:18 PM
Since I only live in properly organised cities, I do use public transport.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on October 22, 2011, 01:22:41 PM
I usually walk.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Liep on October 22, 2011, 01:42:39 PM
I usually get around by bike, like most people here.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Barrister on October 22, 2011, 01:48:45 PM
Where's the option for what I do - the Park n' Ride?  I drive to the nearby LRT station, then take the train from there?
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: The Brain on October 22, 2011, 01:49:16 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 22, 2011, 01:48:45 PM
Where's the option for what I do - the Park n' Ride?  I drive to the nearby LRT station, then take the train from there?

Yes (and I own a car)
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: jimmy olsen on October 22, 2011, 02:41:24 PM
Currently I'm mostly walking. In Korea I took the bus and the train a lot. Before that I owned a car.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: chipwich on October 22, 2011, 02:55:00 PM
I wish I could ride a bus but the routes don't work in my favor.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Tonitrus on October 22, 2011, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 22, 2011, 01:49:16 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 22, 2011, 01:48:45 PM
Where's the option for what I do - the Park n' Ride?  I drive to the nearby LRT station, then take the train from there?

Yes (and I own a car)

If anything, the missing option is "No (and I use a bicycle)".
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Maximus on October 22, 2011, 04:27:57 PM
I don't drive unless I have to and I don't take public transit unless I have to. If I have the time, I walk.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: dps on October 22, 2011, 04:50:20 PM
In North Carolina?  :lol:

Back when we were in WV and only had 1 car (aa didn't have her driver's license yet) aa took the bus a fair amount when she had to go somewhere when I was at work, but she ususally walked.  At least public transit was an option there.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Sophie Scholl on October 22, 2011, 06:19:05 PM
I would walk/bike/or use public transportation if I lived in a city with the right setup.  Currently, I work/mostly go out in a city that's about 15 miles of highway away from me, so I drive.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Slargos on October 22, 2011, 06:22:34 PM
Only time I take public transit is when I'm headed into town. Cab fare from where I live to the party district is roundabouts $100 and I only do that one way in a pinch. Sometimes I wonder if suffering the morons is worth it though. Tonight I had to suffer a drunken brit raving at a couple of teens that they had to move their bikes. Fucking English.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Sheilbh on October 22, 2011, 07:08:09 PM
I mainly walk.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Barrister on October 22, 2011, 07:19:02 PM
Anyways... I love driving, but I hate rush hour traffic.

Driving in Yukon was fabulous.  Driving even 5 hours to court was fine - you so rarely even met an oncoming vehicle.

Needless to say driving in Edmonton is nothing like that. <_<

So... LRT.  I tried taking the bus right from my house, but being out in the burbs you can wait up to a half hour for a bus.  Screw that.  But thee days I'm heading to work for 7am.  So the park and ride lot is almost empty.  The train still  comes every 5 minutes.  I get on the train, I get the free newspaper, I read leisurely while I head in to work.  :cool:
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 22, 2011, 07:20:04 PM
I ram public busses and run over people on bicycles.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 22, 2011, 09:22:49 PM
Car. Hardly anything is close enough to walk to, and public transport doesn't have much presence around here.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: DontSayBanana on October 22, 2011, 09:46:40 PM
No.  There are only four bus routes that service my county and enough distance between points A and B that taxis would get expensive fast, so I drive.  However, when I'm visiting S in Philly, I take public transit up there and we use it for getting anywhere that we can't walk.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Tonitrus on October 22, 2011, 09:46:51 PM
Mostly by car, working on transitioning to bicycle.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Darth Wagtaros on October 22, 2011, 09:50:52 PM
It would be near impossible to get to work using public transportation, or take a very long time and multple transfers after a long walk. 
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: Capetan Mihali on October 22, 2011, 11:14:15 PM
No car, so if I want to go somewhere it is the T and buses for me. Pretty decent public transport in metro Boston.  For my day-to-day existence, though, I mostly walk.  And if I want to do something exotic, I've got a bunch of Zipcar locations near me to rent a car for a few hours.
Title: Re: Do you use public transport to get around on a daily basis?
Post by: garbon on October 23, 2011, 12:01:10 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 22, 2011, 01:49:16 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 22, 2011, 01:48:45 PM
Where's the option for what I do - the Park n' Ride?  I drive to the nearby LRT station, then take the train from there?

Yes (and I own a car)

:hug: