Transportation

[rockmanj]

How do you all get around? Bus, walking, biking, driving? I usually bike these days, and have set a goal of at least 60 miles a week. In the past few weeks, I have been doing over 80 a week. Does anyone else here bike?

[dragonrage]

Subway, buses, Biking, car.

Biking is my hobby. I do it when I can. I like trail riding.

[Archangel]

I take the subway, being a college student i get 50% off so my car is pretty useless for now

[XanBcoo]

Driving all the goddamn where.

[rockmanj]

Driving all the goddamn where.

TEXAS!

@Kraco I try to do that, but my bike was out of order for a few months after I got hit by an expensive SUV (the driver did not stop). It didn't deter me, but my bike was broken. I guess it is just one of the risks of biking in Chicago. Ah...I did drive last week, but only because I needed to get to my apt. really quickly.

Bus/train for the most part with walking in between.

I've been thinking of getting a new bike, but it's always so cumbersome when you have to lock it up with both a chain/cable and a u-lock (and that even won't stop it from being stolen). You always have to find a way to make your new bikes look really old so people are less likely to steal it.

I had a shitty mountain bike of mine get stolen in a good neighborhood (the same one I was run down in) and had both a u-lock and cable (the locks were also taken). I just use a u-lock now and hope that it is deterrent enough.

This is the kind of bike I have now:

note: not my actual bike.

[enkoujin]

Bus/train for the most part with walking in between.

I've been thinking of getting a new bike, but it's always so cumbersome when you have to lock it up with both a chain/cable and a u-lock (and that even won't stop it from being stolen). You always have to find a way to make your new bikes look really old so people are less likely to steal it.

[dragonrage]

Funny that you mention that. A co-worker just got his bike stolen today, it was a higher end road bike too. Sucks that he won't be riding around the city with the rest anymore, at least for a while.

[Kraco]

Biking. Almost everywhere and in any weather. It's fast enough to be reasonable, very convenient compared to navigating in heavy car traffic and you never need to look for a free parking lot. Works as exercise as well, naturally. The only times it's not convenient is when you need to transport a new TV or something... Or you are wearing a formal suit. It can get rather uncomfortable when the temperature drops below -15C in the winter and very uncomfortable when it hits -25C, but you never get anywhere in life if you let the little things detain you.

[David75]

Driving, my work makes it mandatory for several reasons such as too much material and great distances covered everyday at multiple places.
I'd have a bike even at my old age, because I was a bike guy before I started working.

[rockmanj]

Driving, my work makes it mandatory for several reasons such as too much material and great distances covered everyday at multiple places.
I'd have a bike even at my old age, because I was a bike guy before I started working.

Old age? :\

[David75]

Old age? :\

A running joke I seem to keep running.

Other reasons I'd have troubles using a bike is that Paris is incredibly dangerous for anything other than cars or trucks. Most of my biking life was in other cities where it was "safer". Paris and suburbs is hell on wheels, so the bigger/stronger you are, the better.

[shinta|hikari]

Drive. My workplace is 15 minutes away by car but 45-1 hour if I take public transportation (tricycle>jeepney>jeepney>walk).

[Killa-Eyez]

PT by day but fly by night.

[Xelbair]

Car, unless there is hardcore traffic jam i can be in 5 to 15 minutes at my Uni, and it is 40 minutes by foot, and 20 by public transportation if i'm lucky.
I usually go biking from time to time for fun, but 'parking' my bike near my Uni would be like saying 'goodbye' to it.

[Buffalobiian]

My main mode of transport is bus. It was what I used during my uni years, I've been bus-ing to work these past 8 months, and I bet I'll continue to use the bus for the coming 2 years that I'll be at uni again. The next two years after that.. I'm not so sure since clinical schools will be the main setting as opposed to the university and it'll depend on where I live and the availability of public transport in between.

I do occasionally borrow the car for some shopping or to my casual work in the suburb, but that accounts for like 5% of my total use.

I don't find biking an appropriate mode of transport for me because it means I'm perspiring when I arrive. On a more shallow level, Australian laws make helmets mandatory so it mucks up your hairdo. It's a good move for safety, but a bad one for pushing people to use more eco-friendly transport.

Public transport also lets me catch up on sleep, so that's cool too.

[Death BOO Z]

motorcycle. Evo X-250.

25 minutest to get to the university instead of 70 (bike ride to the station and train). 10 minutes to get to work instead of 50.I Although I now pay gas and insurance, I still get around faster and whenever I want, so it's worth it.

my bike (crappy, crappy cheap model) got stolen one week after I got the motorcycle.

[Archangel]

motorcycle. Evo X-250.

It looks... adorable

[enkoujin]

Recently, I've actually developed an interest in the mode of transportation of vehicles because public transit is awful and only those with high tolerance to sour odours, run-ins with some mentally-disturbed homeless, racists and other people with rude etiquette could ever ride it without a care in the world.

What do you all think of the smart fortwo and mopeds for year-round purposes? I'll probably get it somewhere after I'm done university.

[David75]

Recently, I've actually developed an interest in the mode of transportation of vehicles because public transit is awful and only those with high tolerance to sour odours, run-ins with some mentally-disturbed homeless, racists and other people with rude etiquette could ever ride it without a care in the world.

What do you all think of the smart fortwo and mopeds for year-round purposes? I'll probably get it somewhere after I'm done university.

2 wheels, too dangerous. No really. 25 times more chances of having an accident, and not a nice one.

Smart ForTwo, well it's a nice car, too bad it's so expensive for what it does. It's just that's it's a pure city car, not very practical to move things either. But then you can always have things delivered home.

[Assertn]

Leased a new Honda Insight. Though I work from home so transportation isn't a huge concern anyway.