How often do you walk rather than drive? (now be honest!)

I don't do it nearly as much as I should. :( Starting tomorrow, however, I'm going to bike to school every week at least three times. The best I can claim as far as regular chores is about once or twice a week, which is appalling considering I live in an urban area. Cars are just such an addictive convenience.

I don't have a license to drive.

i'll walk the block to the 7-11 or the four blocks to the bar, but that's about it.

i have to drive for work, so i just run my errands on the way to work or the way home.

I suppose the fact that we both have time to post trivial things here in the Lounge would indicate we don't lack the time, we just don't want to spend it.

for me, as i said, i have to drive for work. i have to be able to jump in my car and go anywhere at a moment's notice. i run my errands going to or from the office. my line of work, my hours and the lack of public transportation in my city make it damn near impossible for me to not use my car.

if i could be car free, i would do it. however, my circumstances do not permit me to do so

edit: i don't appreciate you implying that i'm lazy because i drive a lot. you don't know my circumstances and are in no position to make that judgement.

Redstone

I'm glad we have two bars within a mile of the house...not that I go to either of them a lot, but when I do it's good to not have to drive there.

Redstone

i lose my license, i lose my job. period.

and beyond that, gods forbid i hurt or kill someone because i drove drunk. it seems common sense to us, but, unfortunately, not to all.

Once a week for the first half of the year, twice a week the second half. I take mass transit the rest of the time. Bicycle is a little faster going in, a little slower coming home.

It's decadent to drive less than a mile roundtrip.

Redstone

A car for me is a necessity.

no alternative.

Redstone

cars are merely a 'convenience.' Like I said, I quite simply have to drive.

Redstone

nt

Morgantown is spread out, but i live just outside the city limits.

"my" part of WVU is downtown, and i have to go there daily during the week. Fortunately, the university's PRT system connects all the campuses (health sciences--which i live near--, engineering/agricultural, and the downtown liberal arts campus ).

My usual habit is to park either at the hospital (1 1/2 milse from here) or in the grocery store lot (if i know that i have to go there after classes anyway), and take either a bus or the PRT to the downtown campus. It saves me a bundle on gas and parking fees.

Once i'm downtown, i can generally get anywhere else i need to go on foot or on the bus.

i WOULD walk more, but anyone who's been to this part of the 'wild and wonderful' knows that these beautiful rolling hills play hell with weak joints, and i've been nursing a bad ankle for over a year now.

I don't have a car. Or a license.

It's wonderful.

There's a new sidewalk on my street which makes it more wonderful and much safer.

I walk 50% of the time when the weather is nice. However I don't drive much either, I ride the bus unless I have heavy items to carry.

and anyways, my licensed is revoked until 2009...:shrug:

...Years past, it was another story. I used to walk so much one of my friends joked my epitaph was going to read "He walked."

Then for a few years, I started commuting by bicycle everywhere. Loved it so much I would even go out trail riding after pedaling home from work.

Emphysema stopped all of that.

so I can walk to a lot of things. Not as many as I could walk to in Portland, though.