On average?
- Having no license and no car really limits my driving opportunities.
I need to rectify the license thing though. It’s seems like every job in the paper these days requires a valid drivers license.
Usually only for weekend errands - we are public transit commuters.
Even in suburban Boston, if you want to go anywhere whatsoever, you have to drive. That equals 7 days a week 365 days a year for me minus an odd day if I am holed up sick or something. I am always curious about people’s lifestyles when they don’t drive. I think I know enough second-hand not to want to do that experiment at all. It is foreign concept to me.
Of course, you should change your name to avoid biasing the examiner.
I drive habitually five days a week and more often than not on both weekend days, so I chose 7.
Here in SoCal, driving is how you get around. I wish there were reliable and comprehensive public transit, but there isn’t.
Still, i usually manage to go at 1 day a week without getting behind the wheel, so i put 6 days a week.
- I live in NYC and travel by public transportation.
Pretty much every day, on average. There may be the odd Sunday where we stay at home, but other than that…
I don’t drive. Mostly I cycle to work, ride the bus and train when I feel like it/if necessary. I also walk places, but not daily as it’s more time consuming than biking.
Same here. I have to drive to get to work (as does my wife), which is pretty much every weekday. We frequently get together with friends, or do other activities, on the weekends. It’s a rare day that I don’t get in the car.
A minimum of 3 days a week during school terms (my daughter has kindergarten twice a week and ballet once a week), but in practice probably 5 days a week. Rarely 7, but rarely less than 4.
I picked 2–pub-trans commuter, drive both days most weekends. But really if I averaged across the year it would probably be like 1.25–drive both weekend days in the winter and less often in the summer.
Maybe 5? I’m not really sure. Getting kids to and from their activities and running errands puts me behind the wheel more often than commuting.
I suppose there is the odd day I wouldn’t drive somewhere, but it’s very unusual.
At least 5 times a week getting the Kiddo to and from school and activities. If we go out on the weekends, usually SuburbanPlankton drives.
Maybe one or two on average. Between an excellent public transportation and bicycles, we’re pretty much set.
On the weekends, we will often go someplace as a family, but not each weekend.
It varies, but the trips are very short for the most part. We put 4,000 miles on the car in the past year.
7
I live in California. It’s required by law 
When working regularly it’s usually five days a week, but when I’m not working, I tend to walk most places and drive very rarely. It’s important for me to live somewhere that I can walk for groceries, the library, banking, restaurants, etc.
Yes, I’ve lived briefly in an area with enough public transit and enough street traffic that I rarely drove. That’s the only real situation I can think of where it’s fine to not drive.
In pretty much the entire United States I think it’s a huge pain in the ass not to be able to drive. Realistically anywhere but NYC itself I think it’s bad not to be able to drive. Even cities with really solid transit like San Francisco or Chicago, in my experience, not being able to drive is a drag. I know people who don’t own a car in SF and they often have to arrange all kinds of elaborate, weird shit to be able to do things I can take care of in 15 minutes. Is it a daily or even weekly problem? No, but it is a problem and it’s a fantasy to pretend it isn’t. There’s a reason San Francisco is the launchpad for programs like RelayRides (where individuals rent out their cars to people in off-hours.)
I can imagine a ton of situations where, if I had the free time, I’d be happy riding a bike most of the time or walking most of the time. But even in those situations it seems crazy to me to not retain the ability to drive if it’s necessary.