> -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Burns [mailto:s1burns at ucsd.edu] <large amounts of previous posting snipped> > And my comment about 350 miles every week wasn't about traveling long > distances so much as a statement about how frequently I drive; I think we > drive so frequently because we have no other options, not because the > distances are necessarily longer than other places. My trips are only > about > 50 miles around, which isn't very long, but it is regular. Some people > make > longer regular trips; some shorter. But most make regular trips. It is a > culture of suburbs, where few if any people actually travel to the city > center, where public transit is most common. > > Cheers, > > Shawn A guy I once worked with drove something like 89 miles to and from work each day. He's a rather extreme example, and I don't know how long he kept it up (I left the company a few months later).