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Would you walk to work...?

If time was not a factor?

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Or is it the distance?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Time and distance are big factors - I walk allot close to home and I don't drive my kids to school (less than 1 mile and up to 2 is a fair walking distance) most errands can be accomplished by walking but the distance and equipment needed for my line of work make it impossible to walk.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would walk to work if I could...but distance is too great. There is not even bus service to get me to work..does not exsit in many of the areas I go...so instead I drive a hybrid which helps to at least cut down a little on my pollution and gas usage since walking is impossible. I still walk a good 2-3 miles a day on the job despite the fact that I drive. I work as a wildlife biologist and my study sites are spread out over several cities. Some are quite remote, while others are pretty urban. I drive anywhere from 25-70 miles a day.

  • 1 decade ago

    Walking to work not only greatly helps your health, but also helps the environment (a car consumes a lot more gasoline and pollutes a lot more the first 5 miles).

    Ride a scooter if you live within 1-2 miles, it's a lot of fun and is far better on the environment than a car.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes and no. I live 13 miles from work, so no way I am walking. At 3MPH it would take over 4 hours each way. But if I lived 5 blocks from work I would walk. When I go to lunch at work, I walk if it is less than about 5 blocks and drive if it is farther. (My favorite place, Quiznos, is 5 blocks away and I always walk when I go there, but that is largely because traffic and parking actually make it HARDER to drive there than walk). I used to ride a bicycle to college when I lived about one mile from the school.

    But it is misleading to say that walking is what saves the environment, because if you only lived 5 blocks from work you could drive to work every day for a year on less than one tank of gas. Even at 1 mile from the school I could have driven every day both ways on one tank of gas for 30 weeks. So driving instead of walking isn't saving any important amount of gas or making any important reduction in pollution if you live close enough to realistically walk. So it is living close to work that saves, not the walking.

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  • 1 decade ago

    No, especially in the summer time. Even now that the cool weather has come, (95 degree highs), it would be a bit much to walk the 25 miles to work, it would be near impossible at 110 to 118 degrees.

  • Trevor
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    When I used to work from the same place each day I cycled there and back each day, it was about 20 miles and good exercise.

    Now I work from lots of different locations and have moved house. The nearest place I work from is a university about 30 miles away (30 very hilly miles) so I have no option but to drive. Where possible I work from home on the computer.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, since I have a closer job I am considering it, but walking to work in Alaska in the winter isn't very practical! The summers are great for walking though.

  • Ruth C
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    i would love to walk to work. However, 13 miles on a freeway at 3 am is NOT a wise thing to do.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, walking to work would be cool but I live far from my job

  • 1 decade ago

    No, for me it's the distance (13 miles). I bike it every day though.

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