tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post1147147603419281301..comments2024-02-20T00:55:18.782-08:00Comments on Change Your Life. Ride A Bike!: The Corn In Our SideAdrienne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-57172055528803056792012-07-11T16:51:47.038-07:002012-07-11T16:51:47.038-07:00I used to work 45 miles from home and the only via...I used to work 45 miles from home and the only viable option at the time was to drive. I hated it so much. All of the wasted time, the money going up in smoke, the discomfort completely ruined what was otherwise the best job I have ever had. I know exactly how you feel and I am very fortunate that I do not have to return to that. The relief I got from moving to a job that I could bike/train to was huge. In fact, I stayed at the job quite a bit longer than I would have if driving because I liked my commute so much : ) <br /><br />Kids all over the world are growing up knowing that cars will not be a significant part of their future. Cameron, my oldest, does not want to drive until he is older because the cost of insurance is so high. That is fine with me because his bicycle has been such a boon to him over the years. He loves his bicycle, he calls it freedom : )Adrienne Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-12623162293328867662012-07-11T16:45:15.166-07:002012-07-11T16:45:15.166-07:00well thank you!well thank you!Adrienne Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-32201824994733740032012-07-11T16:44:34.674-07:002012-07-11T16:44:34.674-07:00My three kids took off on their own bicycle advent...My three kids took off on their own bicycle adventure today. It was the first time the older ones have ventured out of the neighborhood with the youngest on bicycles without me or James with them. I have to admit, it was a bit of a challenge to let my 17 year old take the seven year old out on the streets like that. They walk and take buses together all the time, but this was different. It shouldn't be that way. I should be able to let me kids go out together without having to worry about silly, distracted drivers on overused streets.Adrienne Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-22261148005945494732012-07-11T13:26:11.687-07:002012-07-11T13:26:11.687-07:00ooops .. my regards!
looops .. my regards!<br />lAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-79504327478099384632012-07-11T13:20:48.451-07:002012-07-11T13:20:48.451-07:00Hear! Hear!! ... your this post deserves wider rea...Hear! Hear!! ... your this post deserves wider readership!<br />(And may I say, Georgie's too)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-61487958725988935282012-07-11T12:26:19.978-07:002012-07-11T12:26:19.978-07:00Every time my office moves further away from home ...Every time my office moves further away from home - I get on a bit of a downer. I spent years working in the town where I live. I could walk / ride to work really easily and always chose that over driving. Then my worked moved 7 miles away (hilly & rainy miles usually), last month it moved ten hilly miles away to a place that takes longer to get to by public transport than it does to cycle. <br /><br />On the days I take the easy option and drive, I see hundreds of cars passing me in the opposite direction. I always think what madness it is that we're driving from each others home towns to jobs in those other towns. Cant we do a job swap?! We'd all save time and petrol money. <br /><br />I try to cycle as often as I can, but it's not easy and employees dont make it easy - in this office move all the showers were replaced by more toilets. There's one shower left - it doesnt work. The roads are so congested & narrow that on my cycling days I set off an hour earlier to avoid the worst traffic. It's understandable why people do choose the easy option and drive in the UK. It's a sad fact of the educated, enlightened, western world. <br /><br />On a positive note though, I have noticed in recent years that school children riding to school seems to be really on the up. Sustrans (our Sustainable Transport charity) has been driving forward Fresh Air Kids, putting money into safer cycling routes to schools and I hope that this may signal a change in the attitudes of our current children once they grow up. I hope that it rubs off onto the adults too! <br />Not to mention car insurance outpricing young drivers - perhaps this will help a shift in attitude. <br /><br />Earlier in the year we had a 'panic'. Oil tanker drivers were planning on going on strike. People panic bought fuel at a crazy rate. Not many seemed to even consider that there could be other options rather than driving their cars. Cars have become so engrained into our society that most people cant see anything else.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05070660416549423649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-84834144069986841532012-07-11T10:55:51.721-07:002012-07-11T10:55:51.721-07:00This is a good reminder. I get caught up in the ev...This is a good reminder. I get caught up in the everyday choice to ride or walk and I forget one of the major motivations for us was visiting Copenhagen, and realizing how quiet it was where half of the commuters were on bikes, and what a relief it was not to worry that my kids would be killed if they ran out into the street. It seems wrong now that I spend so much of our time on the streets afraid for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com