How do you get to work? could you use a greener form of transport?
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Snap survey, 24 September:

We asked you: Could you give up your car in favour of a bike, bus or train?

• Yes 52%


• No 48%

Results from over 200 responses.
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Here five people tell Hannah Gray their favourite way of getting from A to B.

WALKING: Jemma Walton

THERE are only so many hours of your life you want to be sat in your car, practising your clutch control and listening to Land Down Under, Karma Chameleon and to the one that goes 'that's where you belong, in my arms baby yeah.'

Because if you go to work in a car this is the fate which awaits you: you will be stuck in a jam for anything from five minutes to two hours, being subjected to breakfast radio or its equally irritating afternoon equivalent while you hang off your steering wheel, chomp on a piece of stale chewing gum and daydream about your next holiday.

Traffic jams put me off driving to work and I'm not much of a fan of the train or bus, either.

Trains and buses are full of – and I use this term advisedly – fruitcakes. The kind of people that if you glance at them for longer than two seconds will start regaling you with anecdotes about their pet camel or the time they tried to hide a corpse in their freezer.

My boss, Julia Ogden, has recently started travelling by bus and has been detailing her experiences in her More Than a Mum column. One day, she witnessed a teenager vomit copiously into a plastic bag and force their friend to sniff it.

I rest my case.

And so, cars, trains and buses are off the menu, I'm not doing biking to work (I'd fall off) and so it's a brisk walk to work for me. Walking means I get at least 30 minutes of exercise a day, I don't have to sit in my car being subjected to cheesey "hits and memories" and I don't have to watch people throwing up into plastic bags.

Oh, yeah – and it's good for the environment too. I know not everyone can live near their workplace, and others need to take the car to pick children up from nursery and school, but for the time being, walking is the only way to get to work for me.


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