21st February 2007, 02:54 PM
Well I signed the petition and I consider myself quite environmentally aware. I walk or take the bus when I can but getting to work is a different matter.
By Vulpes: âProtest for car driving couch potatoes?â
My current commute by car takes around 3 hours a day. The same by bus and train would be around 6-7 hours and thatâs if there were no delays. (And there are no busses early enough anyway!) The cost of the train journey is more than the cost of my petrol (thought that is a lot) so I choose to use my carâ¦understandably I think and I donât really see it as the lazy option, just the realistic one!
Also my job description says that I need my own car and so do many adverts on BAJR so how do all these people walking and biking to work get on when a last minute evaluation or watching brief comes up? Now I can manage a shovel, kit bag and cameras but I could not cope with a level on the back of a bike!!!!!
Basing half my commute on the £1.20 per mile for the busy motorway and 2p per mile for the quite country roads (though this is probably very conservative) that comes to about £65 a day.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is my entire wage gone and I have not even counted in the petrol!
I am all for sorting out the problems on our roads (I am fed up with sitting in cues on the M5) but I really donât think that this is the way to go about it.
By Vulpes: âProtest for car driving couch potatoes?â
My current commute by car takes around 3 hours a day. The same by bus and train would be around 6-7 hours and thatâs if there were no delays. (And there are no busses early enough anyway!) The cost of the train journey is more than the cost of my petrol (thought that is a lot) so I choose to use my carâ¦understandably I think and I donât really see it as the lazy option, just the realistic one!
Also my job description says that I need my own car and so do many adverts on BAJR so how do all these people walking and biking to work get on when a last minute evaluation or watching brief comes up? Now I can manage a shovel, kit bag and cameras but I could not cope with a level on the back of a bike!!!!!
Basing half my commute on the £1.20 per mile for the busy motorway and 2p per mile for the quite country roads (though this is probably very conservative) that comes to about £65 a day.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is my entire wage gone and I have not even counted in the petrol!
I am all for sorting out the problems on our roads (I am fed up with sitting in cues on the M5) but I really donât think that this is the way to go about it.