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Like countless other Londoners, I had to find an alternative mode of transport to work today thanks to another tube strike. I am not mad about it. I enjoyed a civilzed commute on the Thames Clipper. It's not often enough I can say I took a boat to work!
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
On my commute this morning I spotted this darling caught in a fence. He looks like he's patiently waiting, but he was pretty irritated at the situation and let me know that, loudly. I helped him slip those tiny horns past the wire. (I do wish people with goats would use different fencing. Most do.)
He's the second goat I've assisted with this problem. This time, I knew to take the photo first, since once the first one was free he took off post-haste.
Detail of my commuting from the very first day I began working in Montgomery County to present (as of the date of upload). This shows transit in cooler colors and car travel in warmer colors.
By and large transit has been a longer trip (not least because I still need a car for part of it), but quite reliable and pleasant. Whereas driving the whole way has the capability of being faster (particularly in the morning) but can be maddening in the evenings.
A few specific events...
I was walking to/from Dupont North up until about Oct/Nov 2012, when the south escalators reopened & cut about 5 min off my walk. I later began using Metro Center in the AM, cutting an additional 5 min walk but at the cost of an extra couple minutes on Metro... I mostly switched just to vary my walk up a bit; I liked seeing all the construction each day.
There were two days in 2012 when I tried 100% to my job on the outskirts of Gaithersburg... as you can see from their status as clear outliers: that did not work well. The 56 bus was horrible... it meanders so much, and on that second day I missed it by a few seconds -- had to wait 30 minutes for the next one.
Over Summer 2013 I began testing out I-395 as a driving option... it's worked pretty well in both AM and PM, cutting my DC car time significantly but increasing my VA car time slightly. One perk is I don't have to deal with the K Street slalom, and I also get lovely skyline views along the Potomac.
In the last few days -- on the far-right of the chart -- I switched to a different office which I can travel to entirely by transit... this is why the last few data points which are 100% transit.
Number of people commuting to major city from every commune is divided by number of people working in that commune and that ratio is presented on the maps.
Unfortunately, Polish Statistical Office provides data of working population only for companies and institutions that employ more than 9 people so the real ratio might be different. This is a fair approximation though.
this afternoon. traffic. every afternoon. traffic. i'm starting to recognize the cars that travel along side me day after day.
do you see that hump of granite sticking out of the tree line? that's stone mountain. that's where i live. it almost makes the commute worse...to be able to stare at my destination off in the distance.
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
Day 74 - Today was exhausting - but a good exhausting if that makes sense. It felt good to work that hard. Satisfaction.. yes that is the word. :) My commute - which is maybe a 15 minute drive at most - today turned into an amazingly long hot sticky traffic drive creep that took over an hour... my car overheated and started to smoke! Trapped on the loop, I remembered that I didnt take the shot I wanted in front of the painted brick fireplace that I finally finished today :).
Commuting lives photo project. Commuting to work each day can be a challenging experience and daily I meet hundreds of people, pledged at the same times and same trains.
It's interesting to distinguish how each of us spends these moments differently during the travel: there's who sleeps recovering energy, who reads a book, who is looking forward to the arrival, who divulges his or her feelings in front of a friend but above all, and here it is clear the cultural change occurred in recent years, there's who prefers alienating from it all using their smartphone.
The photograpy raises the curiosity that each of us possesses to a higher level, making the photographer able to analyse the subject even before shooting.
I have spent many of these trips between Monza and Milan to better understand these elements of humanity among the passengers: facial and body expressions, interactions between people, style and good or bad habits.
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
Students from The University of Texas at Austin and Technische Universitaet Muenchen arrive back from a test drive in their electric car for the Commuting Contest as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon at the Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California. (Credit: Thomas Kelsey/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon)
Famous sights of London
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
The 26 mile Causeway Bridge traverses Lake Ponchartrain, as commuters head to and from New Orleans and Mandeville.
Still listed as the longest bridge in the world.
61 Second Exposure
ND 10-Stop Filter
© Randall Douglas Photography
Sort of my late night attempt to stich a handheld panaramic from my car taken on my commute.
It's a Claud Butler Criteritm with horrible Shimano Sora, mud guards fixed with electrical ties, and all manner of bodges and fixes. Wouldn't a Juicer be more elegant?
Mary G. on her Long Haul Trucker at the White House Plaza; more at The Daily Randonneur: thedailyrandonneur.wordpress.com/
Considering the frequency and duration of my commute getting wet is strangely rare.
This is one of those rare occasions - it was on the way home.
My Rapha cap keeps most of the rain off my glasses.
Thanks to the local highway system, my daily commute is only approximately eight minutes long. Living in the city and working in the suburbs means that my commute is the exact opposite of most of my fellow drivers. Every day, I zip by traffic jams heading the opposite direction.
Inside the Toyota HiAce minibus that serves as the daily commute between our housing compound and the office in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
We're not allowed to drive, so company provided transport rules the roost - it's about a 30 minute journey, depending on traffic / weather / accidents.
It's a multi national group inside usually, and the craic and general banter make for a great start to the day.
For those with a keen eye on HSSE, the head restraint in the front row has been removed deliberately for this photo - no one was sitting there, and we put it back at the end of the journey :)
Tags nach dem Sturm Xaver, der hier nur in Resten ankam, aber für dramatische Wolken sorgte.
Day after a storm, dramatic clouds and light on my way to work.
15/365 - A blowup from some footage of Bigfoot caught commuting to work November 18, 2005. TGIF!
I know I can't claim to have TAKEN this photo, but I did doctor it up. I've missed a few days in the project due to sickness and decided to put this one in for fun. Plus, folks seem to think he could be on Mars now. Wha?