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A new program by UC Berkeley, Mobile Millennium has been launched, in limited basis, to assist you with traffic information and ease your morning or evening commute. The program relies heavily on GPS...
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It looks like Microsoft is expanding it’s commuter bus service to accommodate more employees in outlying areas. According to a recent article in the Seattle PI, Microsoft will expand it’s connector bus system to add routes both North and South of it’s Redmond campus. A Maple Valley route will be added in October, which has [...]
don’t need to tell you the downside to traffic — heck, we’ve got a whole blog for that. But the upsides are harder to come by. Today, we have the Good Magazine commuting culture consumption chart.
Good compares the length of some hefty works of art — CDs of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, the three “Lord of [...]
If you spend a lot of time commuting in your Ford Focus or other smaller car, you might feel like you’re wasting a good portion of your day. Here are some things that you can do during the commute to make the most out of your travel time:
• Use a hands-free device with your cell phone [...]
TUKWILA - An accident involving two semi trucks and two cars on Interstate 405 has left one person dead. The southbound lanes of I-405 have been closed ruing the middle of the morning commute. The accident happened just before 7:00am underneath the 61st Avenue South overpass. Flames quickly engulfed one of the semi trucks. The cause of the collision is un
Former Olympic medalist and sporting darling Marion Jones has asked President George W. Bush to commute her six-month jail sentence. Jones is serving prison time for lying to federal agents and being involved in a check-fraud scam.Jones recently admitted she had used performance-enhancing drugs. This led to the charges, as she had denied for years that she had used steroids. A commution is differe
That's right, you heard me. Big changes around here. I have just managed to shave precious time off my commute to work. How did I do it? Well, it's simple, really.I moved to a desk 80 feet closer to the door.Yep, 80 feet.That's a full 10 seconds of my walking time. I'm sleeping in, baby!It wasn't really my choice. They've got some big rearrangements going on here. Apparently, some big wigs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three days after losing to her sister in tennis' showcase event, Serena Williams awoke Tuesday morning at her part-time home in Paris. She flew to London, where she had a layover of a few hours, then hopped a trans-Atlantic flight in which she "slept pretty much the whole way." Upon arrival in the nation's capital, she made a brief appearance at a youth tennis clinic a
Squawkfox posted a handy tool the other day, the Gas-Mileage Calculator, which will show you just what gas prices are costing you.
I drive about 15 miles each way to work (give or take) and spend roughly $.10 each mile. In other words, I spend $3 a day (not counting tolls, which add another $1.60 each [...]
I find great pleasure in working. I know that sounds quite odd, but the fact of the matter is, I like to shop and with out money I can’t shop and without work I have no money, hence the reason I like work. Did that make sense? I have two quasi jobs, one is an [...]
With the price of gas going up each week I was thinking about get a gas or electric scooter to get to work. Right now I commute about 12 miles each way. My little car gets about 30 miles to the gallon. I am using about $3.50 worth of gas each day just to get to and from work. With gasoline going up to about $7.00 a gallon by the end of the summer that will be about $6.00 or more each day, or
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has not yet released information as to whether the 33rd Street PATH line — grounded since early Tuesday — will be up and running for the morning commute Wednesday.The line was shut down after a fire caused track damage on the New York side of the tracks. Officials said they had hoped to have the line ready for the morning commute, but as of now, th
How New Yorkers carry moving boxes home from work. I can't wait to live walking distance (or a cheap cab ride) from the office.See my crafty handles made of duct tape?
Do you have a plane or planning on buying a plane? Perhaps, you are thinking of retiring or maybe just have a decent commute ride instead of being caught up in traffic. How about a second home?
Those were the thoughts of many residents at Cameron Park Airpark. Life is sweet when you walk out of
In case you hadn’t already noticed, this week is Bike to Work week in America. I know that we all think that bicycle commuting is a good idea. But what are some of the facts behind it?
I came across BikesBelong.org which is an American organisation trying to put more people on bicycles [...]
Business Times - 13 May 2008 S'poreans prefer relocation to 45-minute commute to work By CHUANG PECK MING WORKERS in Singapore will grumble if they have to commute some distance to work. Yet they will readily pack their bags and hop on a plane to fly to the ends of the earth to find the right job, according to a poll by Kelly Services.Two in three of more than 2,000 employees here polled by the re
National Public Radio (NPR) ran a story today that suggests that areas with longer commutes and the lack of a good mass transit system are getting harder hit than those areas closer in with a proper mass transit system. This...
I just read that an estimated 1.5 million people in the Puget Sound area get in their cars each weekday morning and spend 687,000 hours commuting 18 million miles. Interesting. For more car accident statistics visit our firm library or the car accident practice area page.
I just read that an estimated 1.5 million people in the Puget Sound area get in their cars each weekday morning and spend 687,000 hours commuting 18 million miles. Interesting. For more car accident statistics visit our firm library or the car accident practice area page.
On Monday mornings at 8am I have the privilege of teaching a Beach Pilates class right on the main resort beach. Mind you, I tried to sell the idea of a Grace bay beach Pilates class to every resort on Provo and NOT ONE went for it! In fact, I received a call the other day from the concierge at Grace Bay Club asking if I could teach Pilates to one of their guests. I replied, "Only if they come over to Parrot Cay on a day pass and book with me at the Spa!" Anyway, enough of that.If I do not have a private or anything immediately after class I love to walk home on the beach. Here are photos of this morning's 15 minute commute.This first photo is the view of the water at 9am when class was over.Then we have the long look at my destination (I live in central housing just left of the rocky
"Oh, why is there so much traffic in the seaway?? I hate Monday mornings... Anyways, as I was saying, Stephanie, I wouldn't be so into this beading thing right now if it weren't for you. Five years ago, you were the one who told me to make a beaded flamingo. And now look at me! Thank you so much for the inspiration. I am very grateful that I've found something I really love to do... Now, after I take you to work, I'm headin' back home. I took the day off to do beadwork." :D(click to enlarge)
Yesterday the area was hit with a bit of a snow storm that started dusting the landscape right after lunch. By 1 PM I had received an email recommending that unless you are working on a critical, time-sensitive task you should go home. Now! The subject line even showed up in red in my Inbox. It’s nice to know that the executives care about their employees and the potential liability of making them stay at the office.
On a clear, precipitation-free day the trek home is reasonable; approximately 40 minutes after I leave my cubicle my car will be safely parked in the garage at home. That was definitely not going to happen yesterday. Snow means a longer ride. And on top of that I had to pick up Princess from day care, a job normally performed by Honey except that he had an afternoon phone meeting. That would add time to the trip but I’ve done it before. Even during rush hour traffic Princess and I can find ourselves at home about an hour after I leave work. Not bad.
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Rollover Accident: Multi-vehicle rollover accident snarls I-5 commute in Tukwila As reported by: KING5.com, WA - Jun 21, 2007 Abstract: Four cars and a pickup truck were involved in the accident, which occurred shortly after 7 am at the point where Interstate 405 merges into I-5 at ... Chris Davis' Legal Comment: Whenever I read about a roll-over accident, I shudder. These types of accidents have the most potential to cause serious and permanent injuries to people. The neck, head and back are usually whipped all over the place, while numerous forces are unnaturally exerted on the body in many different planes. People should remember to always wear their seatbelts since roll-over accidents can often eject people from the vehicle leading to paralysis or death.
Rollover Accident: Multi-vehicle rollover accident snarls I-5 commute in Tukwila As reported by: KING5.com, WA - Jun 21, 2007 Abstract: Four cars and a pickup truck were involved in the accident, which occurred shortly after 7 am at the point where Interstate 405 merges into I-5 at ... Chris Davis' Legal Comment: Whenever I read about a roll-over accident, I shudder. These types of accidents have
I help many people who relocate to Portland with their real estate needs. Many aren't very familiar with Portland and so they tend to have questions about commuting. The average Portland worker spends 23 minutes commuting to work, according to the U.S. Census. In this study, people who commute at least 90 minutes each way to work are classified as "extreme commuters." Thankfully, only 1.9% of Oregon's workers face such travel (New York, for instance, has 5% of its' workforce in this category).Here are the average commute times in minutes for the Portland metro area using public transportation and all methods of transportation:Public vs. All Methods = Area37 vs. 23 = Portland38 vs. 22 = Wilsonville38 vs. 24 = West Linn41 vs. 22 = Lake Oswego 41 vs. 23 = Tigard41 vs. 23 = Beaverton44 vs. 24 = Hillsboro46 vs. 25 = Oregon City 52 vs. 29 = Sandy
This morning on the way to work, I was stopped at a red light and an interesting thing occurred. There is construction going on and there was a dump truck on a temporary road to the side that wanted to get in. The light turned green and the fellow commuter a couple cars up waited and waved the dump truck to go. The car in front of me started honking. The man in front of me was honking and swearing. It took all of 10 seconds or so for the dump truck to go.
We were towards the back of the line, but the light turn red again just as we approached the intersection. There was the nice commuter who let in the truck, the irate honking commuter, and me. He was still going on and shaking his first at the car in front of him. Soon the light changed again and we continued on our way.
This normal situation was a great struggle with much disappointment and some suffering for the man in front of me, but it was totally in his head. Why all the stress and strain? It was a beautiful morn
We’re walking to lectures, it’s around 8am and there is an oncoming mob of Liverpool street station commuters. I wait at the traffic light slightly dazed by the morning sunshine and stare blankly at the other pedestrians waiting to cross. One hurried lady walks out, sees a silver BMW coming towards her and runs across the road in a fairly graceless manner to avoid getting hit.All I do is watch expressionlessly.“Yes darling, it’s called a car” she declares to me as she passes.Right? I’m clearly the idiot here…We made it to lectures on time. I had a badass sore throat, and sat through the lectures swallowing what little secretions of saliva I could to soothe the burn. The second lecture was however, hilarious, inspirational, eye-opening. London is quite tiring right now; I think we’re all finding it so. I’m trying to establish a daily routine and settle in but at the moment it feels as though I’m not living in London, but simply existing in it.Apologies for the short
Wednesday is Productivity Day at AlexShalman.com
If you’ve been a reader here for awhile, than you know that I’m currently working towards obtaining a Master’s degree in Biomedical Science. All this means is that I get the opportunity to learn the art of frugal living.
It’s no secret that most students do not produce an abundant supply of money, so cutting corners is an important skill set to obtain. One of the things I’ve done this semester is get rid of my apartment at school. While it was nice to be 1 mile from my classes, and served as a great time saver, I couldn’t justify spending $1000/month on rent and utilities for another year.
In order to cut a huge corner off my budget, I decided to exercise my right to commute. It turned out that I would be spending 48 hours per month commuting, for a total savings of $700 per month after factoring in gas and tolls. That’s a nice wad of cash, if I could somehow justify all those hours spent on the
Trying to decide whether to take I-75 or Cobb Parkway down to the city can cause headaches in morning traffic. Well, I can’t make traffic any easier on you commuters, but I can tell you about a new phone service that will give you traffic information to help with your driving decisions. And best of all, it’s free.
On Wednesday, the state began Georgia 511 — a free phone service that provides traffic and travel information to commuters 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Callers connect to the system by dialing 5-1-1 from any landline or mobile phone. Callers can get statewide traffic conditions, route-specific information and details on road or lane closures due to construction, incidents or weather. Estimated travel times are available for major roads within metro Atlanta. And connections are available to transit providers, major airports, rideshare organizations, tourism information and 511 systems in neighboring states.
Trying to decide whether to take I-75 or Cobb Parkway down to the city can cause headaches in morning traffic. Well, I can’t make traffic any easier on you commuters, but I can tell you about a new phone service that will give you traffic information to help with your driving decisions. And best of all, it’s free.
On Wednesday, the state began Georgia 511 — a free phone service that provides traffic and travel information to commuters 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Callers connect to the system by dialing 5-1-1 from any landline or mobile phone. Callers can get statewide traffic conditions, route-specific information and details on road or lane closures due to construction, incidents or weather. Estimated travel times are available for major roads within metro Atlanta. And connections are available to transit providers, major airports, rideshare organizations, tourism information and 511 systems in neighboring states.
Commute follows a commuter (no, seriously!) as goes about his daily drive from Orange County to Downtown Los Angeles along Interstate 5 Freeway and California Highway 101. During his commute, we see him field phone calls from his office (well phone calls from his sexy assistant, played by Nicole Oring), deals with clients and the pains and aggravations of the most horrific traffic on the West Coast.
The film takes a sarcastic look at coping with the ever growing problem of too many cars and not enough road. The commuter finds time to worry, relax and contemplate his life while extending various philosophical views, all during his drive!
The film was shot entirely on location on the freeways, in traffic as the filmmakers didn’t want to use CGI or green screens. They drove over 1000 miles during the course of the shoot to make sure they got the shots they needed.
The producers of the movie are planning to take to the road a “commute” from Los Angeles to Oklahoma in April 2008, ki
These pictures were all taken in L.A. in 2018 A.D. (That's about five years after the defeat of America by mainland China in a dispute over Taiwan when the Chinese marched into the States with a twenty million strong army and........ well we all know the story and it's old news anyway!) * You will notice problem of the Mexican illegals has solved itself.^|^ This shot was taken in the Hollywood HillsValley BoyComming down from the hills has gotten a little harder since the floods.
Am sure as you all know, travelling time by cars has dramatically increased over the years and it seems that things are only likely to get worse. Well how bad is it really??? GulfTalent.co has actually conducted a survey of the following issue and the results were somewhat of a surprise. The study involved 5000 professionals from 14 different middle eastern cities and the results were as follows:
Average Commute Time Per day:
Total Return Journey (To and From work) by Place of Work
Dubai –> 1 hour 45 minutes (Sharjah to Dubai –> 2 hours and 44 minutes)
Cairo –> 1 hour 33 minutes
Sharjah –> 1 hour 8 minutes
Doha - –> 56 minutes
Dammam –> 55 minutes
Beirut –> 55 minutes
Kuwait –> 55 minutes
Amman –> 53 minutes
Riyadh –> 49 minutes
Abu Dhabi –> 48 minutes
Muscat –> 48 minutes
Manama –> 48 minutes
Khobar –> 47 minutes
Jeddah
I know it’s terribly stereotypical to say Californians (and Americans for that matter) love their cars. We do. What we don’t love is our commutes.
I’ve lived in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Oakland, and San Francisco, so I think I’m somewhat qualified to deliver a fair assessment of the state as a whole. For the most part we refer to freeways and interstates by their number as in “I took the 101 (one-0-one) to the 405 (four-0-five) to the 105 (one-o-five) to the 605 (six-o-five) to the 91 and totally missed the traffic on the 5.” If you are in So-Cal, you have “the 405″ and if you live in Nor-Cal you simply refer to the number “405.” (Incidentally, if you are an LA traffic guru you’ll know that you’d end up near the house of mouse in Anaheim following those directions.)
Again, I know it’s very stereotypical but I have had more of my friends in Los Angeles ask me what *kind* of car I drive (a Honda
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I hate when a bead of water drops from scaffolding above the sidewalk or from support beams along the ceiling of the subway station and hits me in the head. I swear, I feel like something is going to grow out of my hair within a few hours.Among the other hazards facing commuters in the concrete jungle, falling ice and stray voltage have resulted in serious injury and even death in recent years, as reported by NewYorkology.[From The New York Times, March 20, 2007]: One woman was briefly hospitalized after hit with ice at Lexington Avenue and East 89th Street and another was hit on West 43rd Street in front of the New York Times building. Over in New Jersey, a large chunk of ice melted off the Pulaski Skyway, hitting two women in a sport utility vehicle.It's also a good time to worry about stray voltage, which has killed a few dogs and one person in New York City in the past couple years. Salt, used heavily on streets and sidewalks to melt the ice, creates a path for electricity to trav
Troubles with your morning commute? Not if you work for Google in the Silicon Valley.
The latest perk that Google employees at their Silicon Valley campus enjoy is a free transportation service to the Googlepex (Google’s facilities in Mountain View, CA). Google operates a 32 biodieseled buses fleet that ferries more than 1200 of its employees to work every morning. The buses are equipped with Wireless internet connections, so Google potentially gains around two extra daily hours of employee productivity. Morning Service starts at 5:05 AM and Evening service ends at 10:05 PM.
Does your company offer such transportation services ? Mine doesn’t
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The Financial District from the downtown office buildingI can't look at that skyline without thinking of the Twin TowersA playground in Chelsea on the way back to the midtown officeBefore descending the stairs to the subway at West 28th & 7th
Morning. 7.30am. In the cab were two giants with their Mummy and Daddy on their way to Nani’s house.
*sigh* …. Xian ah …. Do we have to do this EVERY morning?
Zzzzzz ………
Note: No children were harmed or bathed before and during the morning commute. All characters are real and cute.
Today I slept in until 7:00.I still got to work at 8:00.Monday I'll have to get up by 6:00.I'll still get to work at 8:00.Today I'll leave the office at 5:00.I'll see my kids by 5:45.Monday I'll leave the office at 5:00.Hopefully I'll be home by 6:30 to see the kids off to bed.*sigh*I just have to keep reminding myself that this is a promotion of sorts. I'll be prosecuting adult felony offenders instead of juveniles. Doing good, blah blah blah. Hopefully my kids will understand some day why I'm always gone. I guess it could be worse. Most nights I'll make it home in time for reading books and giving hugs. I have to warn you, fellow bloggers- I'll will not be able to post and comment with so much frequency - my new boss is a bit more hands on - and I have a lot to learn in my new assignment. I'll try to switch my blogging to nights - so sorry in advance for my late comments. Have a great weekend everyone - I know I plan to.
Now that I have been working downtown for two days, I am becoming reacquainted with my "city" language, as opposed to my polite suburban curses such as "fudge" and "shoot"okay, I have never said those words except maybe, "I would shoot someone for some fudge right now"....well, never have said that either, but it seems more likely than "oh, fudge!"*please avert your eyes from this post if you have sensitive ears*I feel like I have been absent from my blog for eons - but, really, only two days. Yesterday, quite frankly, felt like a week.Yesterday MAJORLY SUCKED ASS!I spent nearly an hour and a half EACH WAY driving - then, they don't even have an office for me yet because my new office is still occupied because she can't move, because her new office isn't ready because the guy in it can't move....etc....because some jack ass up the chain of command hasn't bothered to get his SHIT out of his office - some excuse about "being in a homicide trial..." blah blah, freakin' blah. So,
New York, New York
More than 400 passengers were asked to evacuate New York City's N train due to a derailment this Sunday, causing thousands more to find a new route to commute. Charles Seaton, a transit spokesperson said, “We're working to have service resume by the morning rush, I expect ...
New York, New York
More than 400 passengers were asked to evacuate New York City's N train due to a derailment this Sunday, causing thousands more to find a new route to commute. Charles Seaton, a transit spokesperson said, “We're working to have service resume by the morning rush, I expect ...
If you spend a lot of time commuting in your Ford Focus or other smaller car, you might feel like you're wasting a good portion of your day. Here are some things that you can do during the commute to make the most out of your travel time:
• Use a hands-free ...
