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Jul. 22nd, 2005 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holytoastrYou have no idea how happy it makes me that my car worked this morning. It's fantastic. And it only took me 10 minutes to get to work! Yay!
So, on a bike, if I don't get lost, it takes me half an hour. Bus+walking takes slightly more than an hour. Car, 10 minutes.
As much as I think it is important to use less environmentally unfriendly forms of transportation, it's hard to follow through with it because it takes so long to get where I need to go and then I'm too tired to do what I need to do.
Public transportation needs some reworking down here. It needs to go to more locations. The bus line should be able to take me closer to work than it does. It stops at practically the town line between reston/herndon and great falls. Perhaps the wealthy don't need buses?
But yes, having a car is fantastic.
I need to make phone calls today but I am terrified to do so. Unbelievably terrified. I need to get information they may not have from a department that I may not be allowed to speak to. I have trouble coping with rejection, so this looks to me to be a very bad experience.
However, I love ben!
So, on a bike, if I don't get lost, it takes me half an hour. Bus+walking takes slightly more than an hour. Car, 10 minutes.
As much as I think it is important to use less environmentally unfriendly forms of transportation, it's hard to follow through with it because it takes so long to get where I need to go and then I'm too tired to do what I need to do.
Public transportation needs some reworking down here. It needs to go to more locations. The bus line should be able to take me closer to work than it does. It stops at practically the town line between reston/herndon and great falls. Perhaps the wealthy don't need buses?
But yes, having a car is fantastic.
I need to make phone calls today but I am terrified to do so. Unbelievably terrified. I need to get information they may not have from a department that I may not be allowed to speak to. I have trouble coping with rejection, so this looks to me to be a very bad experience.
However, I love ben!
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Date: 2005-07-22 03:45 pm (UTC)& we all love ben.
Hills? Or mountains?
Date: 2005-07-22 03:53 pm (UTC)If this place was flat though, I'd definitely bike. It's only 4 miles and I'd avoid traffic. Well, sorta. The bike trails avoid most of the busy roads, but I found myself riding next to cars a bit more often than I felt comfortable with. Cars whooshing next to my ear at 55 mph make me VERY nervous.
Re: Hills? Or mountains?
Date: 2005-07-22 04:16 pm (UTC)Re: Hills? Or mountains?
Date: 2005-07-22 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: Hills? Or mountains?
Date: 2005-07-22 04:26 pm (UTC)