{"id":262,"date":"2005-10-25T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2005-10-25T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T11:35:00","slug":"the-40-foot-limo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/the-40-foot-limo\/","title":{"rendered":"The 40 foot limo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a love-hate relationship with the bus. No, that’s not quite true – mostly, I just hate <\/a>the bus. I know Ottawa has a really good bus system compared to some other cities, and the bus I catch half a block from my front door leaves me within a 10 minute walk to work. Even though two hours of commuting each day eats a big chunk of my already precious time, it does let me indulge in the morning paper on the way to work, and both a soduko <\/a>and<\/em> crossword puzzle, or a few chapters of whatever else I can lay my hands on, during the ride home.<\/p>\n

Of course, I can also feel smugly superior to all those commuters sitting by themselves in their cars, wasting fossil fuels zipping past me as I shiver in the rain at the bus stop in the pre-dawn darkness, waiting for a bus that may or may not show up but secure in the fact that I am doing my part to reduce air pollution and improve the global environment. Wetly.<\/p>\n

This morning, I am having my picture taken for a new bus pass they’ve introduced. The EcoPass <\/a>lets you buy an annual transit pass through payroll deductions, saving 15% off the monthly pass price. I like the idea of saving a few clams ($144 a year on an $80 monthly pass), but I really love the idea that I’ll no longer be hunting for loose change to use as bus fare because it’s the first of the month and I forgot to queue up and buy my pass again.<\/p>\n

The irony is that they’re talking about a transit strike<\/a> some time in the near future. I’m sure the suburban commuter runs are not among the priority routes that will be staffed by managers in the case of a strike, so I’ve got to do some contingency planning this morning. While I kind of like the idea of working from home on the three days each week that the boys are at daycare and Beloved is teaching (a full eight hours in a completely empty house – I whimper at the mere thought of it), I don’t forsee a terribly productive day if we’re all stuck in the house together.<\/p>\n

Maybe I can take a page from Ann’s <\/a>notebook and head to the local Starbucks<\/s> Tim Horton’s to get some work done. Now that’s a plan I can work with!<\/p>\n

Do you rely on public transit? How is the transit system where you live? Anybody got room for a stranded commuter from Barrhaven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a love-hate relationship with the bus. No, that’s not quite true – mostly, I just hate the bus. I know Ottawa has a really good bus system compared to some other cities, and the bus I catch half a block from my front door leaves me within a 10 minute walk to work. … Continue reading “The 40 foot limo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}