Originally Posted by Coluber42

As much as the snow is a drag sometimes and is messy, nothing makes me count my lucky stars that I can get around by bike and don't own a car like snow does.
Things like watching the neighbor across the street having difficulty maneuvering a tiny Fiat out of the driveway because there's so little space with all the snow banks. Or all those times when I might be managing only 6mph through the traffic, but I'm still going 6mph faster than the cars.
And then there's the disaster that the MBTA has been. I have one friend who usually gets to work on the commuter rail followed by the subway, and it usually takes her two hours. There was one day it took her *seven* hours; the commuter rail was delayed, then the subway was delayed, so she took a bus instead to a different spot where her company had provided a shuttle bus, and then the shuttle bus got stuck in traffic for an hour and a half, trying to go a distance that most of the passengers could have walked in less time.

I'm also fortunate to live close to things and to have a lot of control over my schedule. But it seems like the only people I know who have reliable transportation and who are able to mostly go about their business as usual, are the ones who bike.