Prior to this week, I was taking an express bus to campus. The bus ride itself is about 15 minutes, better than half on highways. But, in terms of walking to the bus stop, and making sure I get there early enough to catch the bus, it ends up being about half an hour. Biking the four miles takes me marginally less than half an hour, door to door, with less than half of it on bike trails. A little more hair-raising, it takes away a time I’d been using for reading, but it’s exercise. And I can do it when I bloody well want to, as opposed to on the bus’s schedule. The freedom to construct my own schedule is huge, and that alone makes the choice of many people to drive totally comprehensible to me. Let alone the hauling capacity and speed. <\/p>\n
However, much like I recognize the nutritional superiority of eating some eggs and meat, and the frequent taste superiority of dairy, but remain vegan, I recognize that cars really rock on several levels, but I will not own my own car, and will only rarely drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prior to this week, I was taking an express bus to campus. The bus ride itself is about 15 minutes, better than half on highways. But, in terms of walking to the bus stop, and making sure I get there early enough to catch the bus, it ends up being about half an hour. Biking … Continue reading “A word on public transportation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}