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| Mon, 11-05-2007 - 11:13am |
WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 months of totally unpaid leave?
- Yes, we have enough saved up for that
- Yes, we could save up enough for that
- Yes, DH makes enough to get us by
- No
- other
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in the state I live in that would require the public transportation actually you know...exist. It does not. There is no rail service, thre are buses in SOME cities but not to go from city to city -- sure it'd be swell to take public transportation every day, I'd do it in a heart beat. But it ain't here!
- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.
Yes. We. Did.
- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.
Yes. We. Did.
I bring up public transportation, because even in places where it IS available, people don't use it and sometimes don't even realize it exists. Until I was 18, I had no idea that the city bus system in Morgantown was as good as it is. And it is pretty good if you live within city limits.
Morgantown is also unique, in that we have a pork project from the 70s-- the PRT. It's a monorail type train thing that connects downtown and the three campuses of the University. But even having this available, a lot of people who could use it do not use it. I work at library at one of the campuses, and there are meetings at the downtown campus library very frequently. Rather than taking the PRT (a 10 minute ride), most of the people attending the meetings drive (10-30 minute, closer to 30 with traffic and parking)-- adding to the traffic and parking problems Morgantown has.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit
http://www.da.wvu.edu/show_article.php?&story_id=31053
http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Morgantown/ (The pictures are pretty cool.)
Edited 11/10/2007 9:05 am ET by geschichtsgal
Just wanted to say "Hi!" from another CT resident....we live in New Haven County - my kids are 16, 13, 11 and a 9 year old sd....I've been a wohm the entire time.
eileen
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