My last three years in Philadelphia, I (mostly) walked to work, since home and work were both downtown and right around two miles apart. (For two years of that, I worked across the street from Independence Hall, which was awesome until Sept. 11.) On days that I wanted to move fast while going to work, or it was too hot/cold, I’d walk up to Chestnut St. Usually, I’d go from bus stop to bus stop, and if a bus and I pulled into a stop at the same time, I’d hop on (rarely, I’d just wait for a bus at the nearest stop). Then, I’d repeat the process going home on Walnut St (or sometimes a street further South, but Walnut is much more fun to walk down). Quite often, I’d reach my destination never getting on a bus. Wasn’t always great if the weather sucked, but was good for my waistline (which has gotten much bigger now that we’ve been in Portland for almost as long as we’ve been in Phila).
Anyway, that was a long way to say it might have been interesting to have this chart back then. Won’t do me much good right now. But I probably won’t be working from home forever.
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