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How Often Do You Ride In A Motor Vehicle?

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Old 10-15-05, 07:08 AM
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I live in Boston, MA (big city). I get into a motor vehicle. maybe once week, usually the bus.
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Old 10-15-05, 02:11 PM
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like a lot of people on here, it seems, i rely on the bike for everything and use public transit if it's far or if i'm tired or feeling like crap (hangovers....yeah...), but i'm with someone who prefers a car for most errands, so if we go someplace together, i'll get in the car with her. not often, and i try to avoid the usage of cars altogether, but it seems like a few of us are with evil car drivers! damn them and their habits of fuel consumption and good taste in partners (cyclists)!
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I ride the bus/train multiple times per month. If youre only counting cars, it could be from 0-10 round trips if friends take me places. I never ask for rides places though.
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Originally Posted by Inoplanetyanin
Los Angeles here. Once a month to let the engine run and change the space on the parking lot.
change the space nice
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Old 10-23-05, 07:33 PM
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Two or three times a day... but that's a rack-equipped bus, and I use it only to get over the Pali (climbing a 2000ft hill full of insane drivers twice a day is not my idea of fun). Sometimes other routes -- parts of Honolulu and the surrounds are extremely dangerous for bicyclists due to the utter incompetence of drivers here.
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Old 10-24-05, 12:56 AM
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Ride the bus/train 1-2 days a week.

Get a ride out to my parents' place once a week in their motor car...
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Old 10-24-05, 08:15 AM
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Greater Seattle, own a car. I drive it to the mountains about once a month or less.

For next year I'm putting together a 26" touring bike with solid axles and a BOB trailer for ski trips to the mountains. It will only take an extra day or two to get to the good snow in the spring/summer North Cascades backcountry.

I have developed an adversion to driving and have a guilty complex about operating a motor vehicle. It blends elements of global inequities, american squalor, trying to live with a small footprint and a hatred of pollution and global demise.

I used to be able to drive alone to take day trips in the mountains, but now find solo trips to recreate in a motor vehicle wasteful.

I used to love old cars too, would spend hours wrenching on the Volvo out in the driveway.

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Old 10-25-05, 07:14 AM
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i've been in a car about 4 times in the last 3 months.

although i will be in a car again this weekend because i cant ride my bike 800 miles for a day trip.

anyways, i try to avoid any motor vehical transport whatsoever.

witch makes it seems strange that i have a drivers license
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Old 10-25-05, 06:04 PM
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I live in Orange County (where Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm are) and use public transportation when I need to but most of the time I'm riding unless it's raining. Also, my father takes me around town when it's feasible.
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Old 10-26-05, 10:15 PM
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I have been living in Philadelphia for a little over a year now. The last time I traveled by bus/car must have been six months ago. It doesn't really make sense to take busses around here. Especially if you live relatively close to center city. In some cases, the bus takes just as long as walking does. I still haven't received my drivers license, and I plan on holding off as long as possible. My bike has made living in this city so much fun.
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