Need another way to work

angeltreats

continualdiamond wrote: »

Do you need a diff licence to use a moped?

If it's over 50cc you'll need a CBT which takes a day and costs (I think) £50 and lasts two years. Unless you passed your test before a certain date (not sure when this is), in which case your licence might already entitle you to ride a scooter/bike.

What about buying a banger for a few hundred quid and insuring it as cheaply as you can find?

Strider590

continualdiamond wrote: »

Hardly anything, 3.7 miles aa route planner tells me, a total of 9 mins. About right, takes a bit of time to get out of the village and onto the A46 cos of how busy it is.

3.7 Miles is somewhere between 45mins and 65 mins walk.
Get yourself some good walking shoes/boots for £70+, then you won't fall over in the snow and you'll get fit, loose weight and be much more healthy. I'd be glad to live that close to work, it'd save me a fortune on the car.

Oh and btw, that journey is not good for a car.... 3.7 miles is not enough to warm the engine, you'll increase engine wear, you'll use more fuel, you'll have reliability issues and the exhaust will rot in next to no time.

9 mins by car sounds a bit slow?
I used to do 9.6 miles in about 6 minutes * when I worked early shift!! :cool:
10 if it was raining
20 in the snow
30 minutes on the afternoons
Over 45 mins on weekends :mad:

*This time is estimated and may be entirely fictional

LandyAndy

Strider590 wrote: »

3.7 Miles is somewhere between 45mins and 65 mins walk.
Get yourself some good walking shoes/boots for £70+, then you won't fall over in the snow and you'll get fit, loose weight and be much more healthy. I'd be glad to live that close to work, it'd save me a fortune on the car.

I agree with this, always supposing the roads are safe to walk down (ie have pavements etc). I used to walk 3 miles to work. It took me 50 minutes without rushing.

continualdiamond

Yep I get paid as a diff job for being the escort on the bus in the evenings. Staff are not interested in doing it, they'd rather be off home on time than doing the bus run.

They have 2 escorts am and pm. 1 person used to do both slots, but when I contacted them if the vacancy had been filled as the other person on at pm had stopped, it already had been filled. However they themselves didn't want to do the pm slot anymore so I stepped in.

No possibility for am as people who are doing it still want 2. Its the school bus run, so school owns that bus.

I work in a special needs school so 99% of students come in on transport provided by the school.

Yes can possibility give OH a lift, means early starts like 3am etc. But issue arrises with him getting home, buses for him home are less frequent than mine home.

Whilst I live in a flat, its just us downstairs and someone upstairs, so no commual area for storage etc and definately no place inside my flat to store a bike.

3.7 miles in 9 mins is simply what the aa route planner tells me. Its actually longer cos you can sit for 5 mins waiting to get out of the stupid village as no one lets you into traffic. Then once you hit town traffic its a nightmare.

At the moment I couldn't walk the 3.7 miles cos whilst road works are going on, they've taken out the crossing for walkers to get over the A46, they're putting in a walking tunnel to get under the round about (i think, it looks like that anyway).

So Id get a bus into town and then it would be walking 1.6 miles. Walking would save me a lot of hassle cos I'm doing ww anyway and do 1.5 hrs of walking every day, but thats fitting it in before/after work, so including it as my journey to work would be ideal. Just need the right footwear for winter.

Any ideas where to start looking for the right footwear?

Also how long would I need to leave to walk 1.6 miles? The bus I would get, would get me into town for 7:52am, I start work at 8:35am, but like to be a bit early to sort my stuff out etc, so like 8:20am arriving would be ideal.

Is that enough time to walk?

Silk

Foldaway bike is the answer
Easy to store, fits in a boot if you get a lift and even take on a bus etc

chrisw

Cheap runaround or taxi?

LandyAndy

1.6 miles will probably take you about 25 minutes. Try it at a weekend and see.

continualdiamond

Taxi...yikes, i bet that is expensive. Only cost me £1.40 to get the bus into town and then can walk the rest.

Will try it out next weekend I think, full of a cold today so off work.

Strider590

continualdiamond wrote: »

Any ideas where to start looking for the right footwear?

I would suggest a pair of Merrell walking shoes/trainers, there are lots of other makes, but I have a pair of Merrell Chameleon's and can't fault them.
You'll need to find an outdoorsy shop, or you might get lucky with some ex stock on ebay.

andy111

The average man walks at 3MPH; so for your journey I would say not less than 35-40 mins.