I'm about 30 minutes door-to-desk driving to work, it's more like 1.5-2 hours if I take the bus.
I have a special awesome rant on public transit in DC, work commutes and inconvenience. But what I find best and most special are the fundamental assumptions that you the consumer have a car and will use it to pick up groceries and other necessaries. Any day where I have to co-ordinate bus schedules to pick up antibiotics is a failure in my book. The DC burbs are getting better about that sort of thing, but the further out you go, the less that's true. Case in point this weekend: a Salvation Army with no bus route in walking distance in Loudon County (aka the exurbs, or Why Did You Move Here Again?).
Now, if I got a new job downtown working normal business hours, we'd go from 120 miles/week on the car down to 20-30 miles/week. And I would be very happy.Now, if I got a new job downtown working normal business hours, we'd go from 120 miles/week on the car down to 20-30 miles/week. And I would be very happy.
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Date: 2008-12-02 02:04 am (UTC)I have a special awesome rant on public transit in DC, work commutes and inconvenience. But what I find best and most special are the fundamental assumptions that you the consumer have a car and will use it to pick up groceries and other necessaries. Any day where I have to co-ordinate bus schedules to pick up antibiotics is a failure in my book. The DC burbs are getting better about that sort of thing, but the further out you go, the less that's true. Case in point this weekend: a Salvation Army with no bus route in walking distance in Loudon County (aka the exurbs, or Why Did You Move Here Again?).
Now, if I got a new job downtown working normal business hours, we'd go from 120 miles/week on the car down to 20-30 miles/week. And I would be very happy.Now, if I got a new job downtown working normal business hours, we'd go from 120 miles/week on the car down to 20-30 miles/week. And I would be very happy.
Good luck with that!