1. What is your current main mode of transportation? e.g. car, bike, subway, walking, etc. I drive a beat-up 2012 Ford Focus called Heapzilla. It has rust, a slightly bent back bumper, and a habit of developing mechanical issues at critical moments. It needs new summer tires (currently doing okay with its snow tires.)
2. Are you satisfied with your current main mode of transportation (answer to question 1)? Why? No, because I'd rather not have to drive at all, and since I do have to drive, I wish I had something reliable. I never feel like I can count on Heapzilla, as it has let me down more than once.
3. Do you think you'll change your means of transit soon? e.g. buy a car, get rid of your car, walk more etc.? If so, why? I've been looking for an affordable yet more reliable car for a couple of years. If I hadn't bought this condo, I might have bought a car instead. As it is, it's just super impractical in this town to not have a car at all. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. There are people here who bike year-round, but we got like 15 inches of snow this week and I just don't see myself doing all I must do in weather like this on a bicycle. Even a nice bike, with nice winter gear. I don't even like winter.
4. If time, distance and money were not factors, how do you prefer to get from point A to point B? Train. We don't have passenger rail. We don't have light rail. No tram. No subway. Nothing. We have a really bad bus system that is unreliable, infrequent, filthy, and it doesn't connect all the places I need to go. Like this weekend I need to go to a neighboring town to feed a friend's cats, several times, because my friend is traveling. There is NO public transit to his neighborhood.
5. What was your worst transit experience? I got off a Greyhound bus in the dark at the wrong exit off the QEW. This was before cell phones. I was supposed to meet my boyfriend but I wasn't familiar with the area and I didn't know I was in the wrong place. I walked a pretty long way in the cold to a convenience store to call him on a pay phone and I couldn't even tell him where I was! It took him hours to find me, and by then I was a bit hypothermic. Took me all night to warm up.
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Date: 2024-01-13 03:32 am (UTC)1. What is your current main mode of transportation? e.g. car, bike, subway, walking, etc.
I drive a beat-up 2012 Ford Focus called Heapzilla. It has rust, a slightly bent back bumper, and a habit of developing mechanical issues at critical moments. It needs new summer tires (currently doing okay with its snow tires.)
2. Are you satisfied with your current main mode of transportation (answer to question 1)? Why?
No, because I'd rather not have to drive at all, and since I do have to drive, I wish I had something reliable. I never feel like I can count on Heapzilla, as it has let me down more than once.
3. Do you think you'll change your means of transit soon? e.g. buy a car, get rid of your car, walk more etc.? If so, why?
I've been looking for an affordable yet more reliable car for a couple of years. If I hadn't bought this condo, I might have bought a car instead. As it is, it's just super impractical in this town to not have a car at all. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. There are people here who bike year-round, but we got like 15 inches of snow this week and I just don't see myself doing all I must do in weather like this on a bicycle. Even a nice bike, with nice winter gear. I don't even like winter.
4. If time, distance and money were not factors, how do you prefer to get from point A to point B?
Train. We don't have passenger rail. We don't have light rail. No tram. No subway. Nothing. We have a really bad bus system that is unreliable, infrequent, filthy, and it doesn't connect all the places I need to go. Like this weekend I need to go to a neighboring town to feed a friend's cats, several times, because my friend is traveling. There is NO public transit to his neighborhood.
5. What was your worst transit experience?
I got off a Greyhound bus in the dark at the wrong exit off the QEW. This was before cell phones. I was supposed to meet my boyfriend but I wasn't familiar with the area and I didn't know I was in the wrong place. I walked a pretty long way in the cold to a convenience store to call him on a pay phone and I couldn't even tell him where I was! It took him hours to find me, and by then I was a bit hypothermic. Took me all night to warm up.