I walk, ride the bus, or bum rides from friends and/or my mother. The majority of drivers around here are insane and/or stupid. I'm scared to drive. XD

I walk wherever possible, but as I have a bus pass that can get me around the county for free, I'll use that if the journey is quite long.

I walked everywhere until just recently. Now I drive an old F-250. I got nothing against bikes, just don't have a reason to own one at the moment. Though in the past I have had quite a bit of fun on a couple of them.

There is like no public transportation where i live, so if im going to get anywhere it's usually by car, and since the weather sucks half the year, bikes can only be used for a certain time before you really can't ride them.

It does annoy me though, i would love to walk around and not have to worry about parking somewhere.

Drive....I used to take buses a lot but then I finally got my own car 2 years ago...I took a while to get my license..But now I can drive..I love it! (^_^)

Yeah, public transportation sucks around here too. I think they're trying to improve the system, but because I drive, it's not worth looking into for now. :3 I've only been driving for a few months due to not really needing to till I needed to commute to college. YAY for getting around the whole logging-50-hours-of-practice-driving-time-'cause-I'm-over-18!

But yeah. If it's nearby, I'll walk. If it's a little farther, I'll bike. If neither apply or it's cold, I'll drive. As for motorcycles, I would LOVE TO RIDE ONE. If only once. 8D

~Shadowed Spirit Sage

If I can, I walk, otherwise I get the bus (or train if necessary).

I hate public transport here, and I plan on getting driving lessons after I get a job (which hasn't been easy so far), after that, and I'm finally mobile, I could get a better job.

Uh I am a bus/train passenger, unfortunatly. I do get lifts from my parents but not particularly often. Mainly just for work. Unlike some people my parents aren't goinna drop everything just so I get a free ride into town (that said at 1.80 one way I wish they did).

Car looks the most likely for me to learn once I scrape up enough money. The lessons are getting paid the old fashioned way; by me.

I'd really love to drive a Harley Davidson but like Boston said it's not very good in non-dry conditions. But apparently people who start out on bikes are the best drivers, so hey what-ya-know! Hmm... actually I'm gonna look up motorbike lessons now c.c

Wow - so many car drivers or non vehicle users in here. I feel so alone!

Glad to see though that in a lot of cases that it is not just an all round fear of motorbikes in general. They can and are actually quite safe, if you use common sense.

Car here.

Okay the bike idea is scrapped for now due to a very important point my mum made:

A1 art portfolio + motorbike = ?

^ Hehehe...Yea a portfolio and a motorbike might cause an accident..I can just imagine you're going a long fast and then your folio flings out behind you which catches all this air so it screws up the balance (or you magically take off into the air from all the wind..lol)...Or going through some tight area and then you fall right off because your folio got stuck between two cars XXDDDDD

have you tried just WALKING with an A1 art portfolio/folder in strong winds? oo; mine acts like some big blue plastic sail!

I'm a passenger!

I seriously don't trust myself behind the wheel of a car.

Driver here I don't mind motorbikes, I quite envy them when I'm stuck in traffic and they can go bombing up the outside. But I do much prefer having a car, with a roof, a radio, heating etc. Not to mention space to dump bags, folders, files, A-Z maps, Haynes manual, spare windscreen wipers, water bottles and general junk! Oh, and room for up to four passengers, although my car would probably start complaining at that point, as it's used to just having to haul me around.

Motorcyclists do not annoy me like cyclists in Bristol do - but I do like them to be very visible. Anything a motorcyclist can do to help me see them is very welcome, whether it be having the headlight on even in daylight hours, or wearing a hi-vis jacket / strip over the biking leathers.

Having said all of that, I don't use the car for pootling round Bristol. If it's city centre-based, then I'll either walk or take the bus, because no one drives in Bristol for fun and the parking is really expensive. But if I have to visit friends in other parts of the city (out in the suburbs for example) then it's driving all the way. Hurrah for living within a mile or two of a motorway

DW

ChibiBecca: I have an A2 folio..I don't like lugging it around when it is windy (@_@);;; An A1 would just be mad annoying (T_T)

I actually have hopes to ride a motorcycle one day. I can drive a car, but not well enough, so it's obvious I have yet to obtain a license and frankly, I'm really not in a rush. I rather a bike then car.

o.O Runner here. I'm dangerous enough on a bike. I think I've wrecked a total of 250 times on a bike, no lie.

As for ever driving, I'd like to, but I feel safer on something that I know I could control the speed of, and make a hasty getaway, so maybe a motorcycle as well :O

But all in all, I'd rather walk it, distance doesn't factor unless its over 20 miles :o.

Cars here, or I would be should I ever get off my butt and re-gain my learners liscence, and then get my provisional. I love driving. It's just so awesome. m/

Proffesional passenger and public transport expert in the meantime though

^ Get your P's quickly..they are changing the rules and making it harder (-_-) And waiting to get your test day is just annoyingly long wait.

Driver here. I live too far away from work, and I don't know how the busses are around here. And I like being able to store all my stuff (groceries, notebook case, etc.).

I rode with one of my uncles on his Harley years and years ago. Even at the low speed he went, I wasn't very comfortable on it. Would I try it again? Meh, maybe. Though I'd prefer something with a quieter engine.

I bike...just on a regular bicycle...I used to do that, even in rain or snow...or subzero temperatures but that gets old fast so I use the car. When it's warmer, I plan to go back to using a bike/bus. Public transportation is great here and gas is too expensive.

I ride a bus to school, and a bicycle around my neighborhood (friends house etc.).

I absolutely love some cars, so I think I'm definitely going to drive one instead of a motorcycle or any other alternative.

I walk most places when I'm in Cambridge and use public transport/lifts when in Cardiff. I can drive, but I rarely need to so I haven't in ages.

I probably will learn to ride a motorbike at some point though, just for the hell of it. Not till I'm out of uni and actually have an income though.

One of my advantages for car driving just died on me. My car heater stopped working. Just in time for me to spend an hour in crawling traffic through snow, wiping the mist off the inside of my windscreen every 5 seconds.

On the way back to Bristol this morning I thought my toes & fingers would fall off...

Oh, and the central locking has gone dodgy so I have to get in and out of the car through the passenger door - otherwise I can't actually lock the car!

Still, the radio still works

DW

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There is like no public transportation where i live, so if im going to get anywhere it's usually by car, and since the weather sucks half the year, bikes can only be used for a certain time before you really can't ride them.

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Same here, Fexus. I used to ride a (blue)Honda Shadow 600 VLX, but I sold it because 1) the weather sucks here (too much rain!!) and 2) you can't carry much on a 600 Shadow.

I hate public transport in my town. It is always late, the drivers are very rude and if you don't get to the bus just in time they drive off in your face.

If you do get on, you need to push your way through the rubbish, avoid the mess the kids make on the floor, find a chair that isnt burnt out or torn open or falling off and then avoid sitting on gum...

I love my bike for this reason.

Amen to that. Public transport is over-crowded and over-priced. The Stagecoach bus adverts at the moment make me laugh, because that is *not* my experience of Stagecoach in Gloucestershire.

In Bristol we have a First Group double-whammy. They run the buses and a lot of the trains. In the case of the trains, they hike the fares and reduce the number of carriages. Then they tell commuters that if they want to catch the train, they should travel outside of peak hours. Exactly how many people do you know who work for a firm which would be happy for them to arrive at work after 10am?

I now live on a so-called "Showcase Bus Route". I'll give them this, usually there's a bus every 10 minutes. But when it goes wrong, it generally goes really wrong. I've waited for three quarters of an hour, while the arrival board showed a stream of buses as "due" which never turned up. The first that actually did was full, so it didn't stop. Then the next one eventually made it and spent another three quarters of an hour crawling into town. Major traffic nuisance that day, I'll tell you!

DW

Can't drive yet (working on it). I'm getting increasingly tempted to investigate getting a bike licence as a stopgap, but I'm not sure I'd feel safe being that exposed.

^ Today I was out in the car and it was terribly windy and rainy..The wind was so strong my father and I heard 'new' noises in the car because the wind was so strong..I would really hate to be riding any sort of bike in that condition as it scared me just being in a car..x_x

I ride in any weather, rain or shine, gales or heatwave. I do admit, crosswinds can be a little unnerving, but you get used to them after a while.

If I ride to Bristol, you're more than welcome to try out my bike Sam.

I actually had to slow down on the motorway yesterday night - shock, horror! Pouring rain and strong winds are best experienced from within a car.

An update on my car: 240 later, the heater is fixed. Turned out the water pump went, which in turn meant the engine couldn't cool down. This particular catastrophic failure hit me about 100 yards up the slip road off the motorway and again 3 times between two junctions on the M5. Thank heavens my parents were able to come tow me back to their house. I've told them I owe them dinner big time...

Still need to look into getting the door lock sorted - the driver's door lock now is jammed completely on the outside. The inside mechanism works though. Scrambling across the gear stick and the hand brake is a little undignified

DW

Hate buses. Consequently, I drive a 2006 Toyota Corrolla.