Have you or anyone you know ever walked to work as their usual way to get there? I’m not referring to people who work at home or on their own property.
My elementary school custodian walked to the school. When I was in high school, one of my English teachers and his wife, a guidance counselor, lived right across the street from it.
I walk to work. Usually cover 2 - 4 miles per day depending on whether I walk home for lunch or not. I’m a professor.
One of my co-workers walks 90% of the time. I’d guess it’s about 1.5 miles each way.
I had a summer job in Anchorage one year, and I walked every day. It’s nice.(if you don’t have to carry a bunch of stiff)
I walked to work for 8 years. It was only 15 minutes one-way, so it was a nice. easy walk (well, except during a snowstorm).
In one sense I still do, but my “walk” is the 10ft or so from my bed to my desk as I work from home now.
I used to walk to work when I had a summer job at the local factory. We lived in a factory-owned huge house right next to it since my dad was one of the bosses there. That was maybe 500 m.
Going to switch to walking in my current job once it gets too slippery to safely bicycle there. I don’t have a car and it’s only 1.8 km, so about 15 min of brisk walking.
Yes, my husband walks the ~1.5 miles to work each day. The upside is the gas savings. The downside is you wear through shoes quickly and if the streets are full of rainwater you’ll have wet feet all day if you forget a change of socks.
For about three years, I lived 1.5 miles away from my job and walked there and back every day. It was great – I miss that aspect of that job.
I walked to work for a number of years. Great exercise and stress reliever. I was also lucky enough to skate to work for a few years when I lived near the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. Some chilly mornings, but so much fun!
Yes. Plenty of my colleagues walk to work. Most only live a mile or two away. My son walks to work - he’s just a few blocks away.
In the ten years that I have been at the library I have walked to work a total of 5 times. I live about 3.2 miles from my work. It’s a good walk that starts off with hills and then flat terrain for about two miles. I’ve ridden my bike a dozen times, taken the bus, and mostly driven and scooted the rest - my favorite mode of commuting.
I walk to work now and then, usually when Mrs Piper needs the car earlier (we normally drive together). Also if the weather is nice. Used to walk more, but getting the Cub off to school tends to cut into the morning time.
While I am now retired, I most always walked to work, or biked. I’ve always lived and worked in the urban core and never had a drivers license. I still walk a lot, the dog every day, plus to the doctor, pharmacy, bank, etc, all within walking distance.
As my usual way to get there? No. But for the past few years, I’ve lived four miles from work, and during the warmer months I would try to jog to work once a week. It was a bit of a complicated endeavor, as I would have to leave a gym bag at work with clothes to change into, and shower in the locker room downstairs, but it often put me in a great mood to start out the day.
I do for my part-time job. Really can’t for my main job since it’s 20 miles away.
I live about 2 miles from work. I am also mostly blind, so I couldn’t drive or bike if I wanted to. For several years, I walked to the office (about 35 minutes), but as my vision has deteriorated, it’s gotten more difficult and stressful to do so. Now I usually ride the bus with a route that goes more or less directly from my home to my office.
One of the great joys of life is not having to drive to work.
My workplace campus is technically a very short block away from my apartment complex, but both are so large that it is exactly 1 mile from my apartment to my work building. I walk once a week or so on average, more in the winter, much less in the summer when it is too hot to walk half a mile much less a whole one.
I only live 2.5 miles from work, so I walk.
When I was a kid, and we lived in Manhattan, my father taught at Columbia, and my mother was in grad school and a teaching assistant, and my parents deliberately got an apartment in walking distance. The added rent was worth not maintaining a car and paying to park it in Manhattan. They took a bus and umbrellas in bad weather.
My aunt and uncle lived nearby, and my aunt cared for my when I wasn’t at preschool, and later for my brother. Some days my parents walked my to school, some days my aunt came by and walked my along with my cousin(s), and one year, the was a time when she paid a women who lived in out building to watch me for about an hour twice a week, and then walk me to school.
In elementary school and intermediate school, I always either walked or rode a bike, and after age six, I frequently didn’t have an adult walk with me. In high school I rode a bike often, but I had a mix of my older cousin driving me, taking the city bus there, and taking the school bus home, which included a pretty long walk.
My when we moved to Queens, my father still walked to the train, and then walked from the bus stop he transferred to. We had a car then, but it was mostly used for visiting my grandparents outside the city. The only time my parents drove in the city was if they were buying something large, or if one of us was sick and needed to see a doctor in the city.
I walk the 0.8 miles whenever the weather’s halfway decent and I’m not running late.
Wife walks, I ride a bicycle. We are both around 2 miles each way. Not sure why you would drive being this close unless you had to drop off and pickup children.