Originally Posted by
General Geoff
I ride a motorcycle to work every day because it's the closest thing to a bicycle that will get me there in a reasonable time (47 miles one way on the highway, or about 40 miles if I take the most direct backroad route). The weather and day/night don't really bother me.
That is a long commute. It makes perfect sense to use a motor vehicle for it. And I understand that many people are in your situation. And, in sparsely populated areas, I doubt that public transportation is a realistic solution for you.
I suspect that many people with shorter commutes use a single-occupant car to get to work. I used to live in a town in central PA that was 6 miles long, and I only had one coworker that commuted by bike. Just one, everyone else drove their car for less than 2 or 3 miles (a few people commuted from other towns, but not most).