In my early years, I would travel 56 km. from home to the training institute and back every single day.
It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
When I was in my college, I remember travelling by buses to tutions, and I have travelled by local trains as well.
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife ;, A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
Note that commuting was an already established pattern in America by 1929.
I'd rather go by bus.
I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.
I would hate to be on a plane every day.
My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.
A bridge shouldn't just fall down in the middle of America. Not a bridge that's a few blocks from my house. Not an eight-lane highway. Not a bridge that I drive over with my family every day, along with tens of thousands of Minnesotans. But that's what happened.
I was literally in the car every day on my way home from school trying to hurry up and get the homework done so I could just go home and watch the cartoons and not be bothered.
From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
I used to listen to my music on the bus. It was one of my favourite things, to look out the window and over at the Jacques Cartier Bridge and Parc Jean-Drapeau.
I am on my bike daily, and most of the locations, warehouses and specific residences from 'The Cut' were found while I was riding.
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.
The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past
I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.
My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.
I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.