Oh, quit being so smug, Scott. 'Choice', for most of us, does not equal a realistic choice. The apartments I just moved out of had a bus stop. To take bus to work would take me 2 hours a day, counting the 20 minutes downtown each way waiting for the transfer. I can drive it in ten minutes each way. I've only got so many years left, and taking slow tours of the city is not how I want to spend 8-10 per cent of my waking hours each week. And because I want to have as many years left as possible, an apartment in the high-crime slum area surrounding my office, or anywhere a transfer wasn't needed, was not an option I would even consider.
Now back in college, I did use the bus almost daily, and-or lived close enough to walk to clbutt-work. That town had a bus system organized to meet rider's needs, unlike here. Only used the car for grocery trips and laundromat, most weeks. If this city and my employer would get their act together, they could organize a shuttle bus loop that went directly from the high-employee-concentration apartments and neighborhoods to work, say twice people would sign up in droves. (Yes, I did suggest it to them, but it disappeared w-o a trace. NIH.)
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