cars
completely insane car people
h/t atrios:
Extreme commutes: More time on road means less time for family
Zack Guettinger's alarm sounds at 3:45 a.m., bringing with it a cruel reminder that he must drag himself out of bed for another three-hour drive to his job in San Ramon.
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On a typical day, he drives 200 miles there and back. It's not a short drive, but as he explained, it's what must be done.
i killed my cable...
...now I am thinking about killing my car. From Krugman:
Sick transit and all that
The Times reports that ridership on mass transit is surging thanks to high gasoline prices. Good.
But … as of 2005, only 4.7 percent of American workers took mass transit to work. So even a 10% surge in mass transit ridership would take only around half a percent of drivers off the road.
The point isn’t that nothing can be done — it’s just that serious reductions in driving would require a lot of long-term rearrangement of the way we live. It will come — but not quickly.
The key for me is that I'm self employed and am in the 3.6 percent that works from home or the nearest wifi-enabled coffee shop. (I need an easily accessible power outlet too, which actually turns out to be more of a pain than wifi.) But I don't have to drive unless I want to.
