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Map Boy:
Recent posts from this weekend (October 8-9, 2005) have brought up the interesting question of how people are traveling on a daily basis, considering rising gas prices and declining funding for public transit.  Some of this is contained here:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=4504.msg43634#msg43634

How are UrbanOhioans traveling these days?

The vote may be a bit one-dimensional, so feel free to add comments about commute time, multimodal details (I bike if it's nice out...bus if it's not) and so on.  Also, if you feel like estimating the cost of your daily commute, I'd love to hear it!

zaceman:
well i drive down to school from north royalton since art stuff is hard to bring on public transit.  however to go from university circle to downtown the redline is my top choice which i ride usually 3-5 times a week. 

KJP:

Some days I take the bus the work. I purposefully chose my residential location near Lakewood's Gold Coast because it is one of the few inner-ring communities that has fairly decent transit service to where I work. A one-seat bus ride to near the county line is a rare thing! But, if the Rapid went past where I work, I'd prefer to take that.

Some days, when I have to be downtown first thing in the morning, I take the bus downtown (it runs every five minutes past my building). After I pick up documents at the Justice Center, I sometimes walk to Tower City to get some breakfast and take the Rapid to West 117th and transfer to the #75X bus to North Olmsted. Or, I'll take an earlier bus, get breakfast in Fairview Park, and catch the next bus out to North Olmsted. Today, I was able to cover that distance (home to downtown to North Olmsted) in an hour and 20 minutes, just because all the connections worked and I didn't stop for breakfast. 

Some days I drive to work (if I'm going to be covering multiple news stories -- though I recently took on a different news beat so I wouldn't have to drive as much and because I'll be able to cover redevelopment and transit issues more often).

In other words, I'm a multi-modal kinda guy.

KJP

MayDay:
Wake up around 7am.
Have a light breakfast; hop online and check the news until 7:30am.
Get ready and dressed by 8:00am.
Out the door by 8:10am.
On the bus by 8:15am.
Get dropped off around 8:20am.
Walk over to coffeeshop; get coffee by 8:30am.
Walk to work and at my desk by 8:35am.

Give or take :-)

J. Dub:
Based on my location, I'm forced to drive to work everyday.  I would love to catch the NorthCoast Express (METRO bus that runs between Akron and Cleveland), but it would take me no where near my job and the additional transfers needed to get to my job wouldn't be worth it time wise.

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