Ideal Bite

Want to get away for Labor Day weekend but hate the thought of all that traffic?

09.01.2005

Submitted by idealbite on Thu, 09/01/2005 - 5:00pm.

The Bite:

Don your whites, throw on your open-toed shoes, and take public transportation so you can kick back and enjoy the last real weekend of summer. Public transportation is safer, faster, cheaper, less stressful and helps keep the environment clean.

The Benefits:

Reduces your stress by reducing traffic congestion. For every bus, 60 cars are taken off the road. For every train car? 200 individual cars. And you aren't the one doing the driving.
Better for the environment. Buses emit 80 percent less carbon monoxide than the average car.
It's much safer. Riding the bus is actually 91 times safer than driving your car.
Save money - For every dollar earned, the average household spends 18 cents on transportation, 98% of which is for buying, maintaining and operating cars.

Personally Speaking:

We've become train lovers because you can get so much done when you don't have to drive. It's either a chance to do last-minute work before vacation, or a way to start the vacation early by curling up with a good book instead of trying not to make rude hand gestures to the Hummer who just cut you off.

Wanna Try:

Amtrak - when was the last time you took a train?
Greyhound - look at it as an adventure...

Find other transportation alternatives:

CommuterPage - Washington DC area
Transit Rider - Transit options for California, Denver, Las Vegas, Tucson, St. Louis, Seattle.
511.org - travel planner for SF bay area.

Cocktail Fact

30,000 passengers can be carried on a single subway train line in one hour. 10 additional highway lanes would be needed if these riders drove instead.