Information from a NC Department of Transportation study presented recently at a work session of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners presents quite a detailed look at traffic and commuting patterns in Guilford County.
What’s the average daily commute time for workers who still head to the office? If you said 22.4 minutes, then you got it exactly right.
How many of the roughly 550,000 county residents stay and work within the county? That would be 211,905.
How many commute to a different county for work? 44,256.
Those numbers are very specific, however, in reality they are the best guess based on the study’s findings.
According to the study results, 8.7 percent of Guilford County residents work from home. The pandemic has, of course, made that a popular choice and, post-pandemic, many people in Guilford County, and across the country for that matter, don’t want to return to the office – at least not five days a week.
Guilford County government employees, to take one example, have started a strong push for county officials to allow them to work more from home when their jobs allow it. County detention officers, for instance, are still going to be stuck with coming down to a county jail no matter what.
Not many people walk to work in Guilford County, but some do. According to the study, 1.8 percent of those who commute to work do so by walking.
Even fewer people ride a bike to the office or workplace. Only one-fifth of 1 percent of the workers use that method of transportation.
Likewise, only a small percentage of workers in the county get to work on public transportation. Only 1.5 percent of workers do it that way.
And what’s the most common way to get to work? By motorized vehicle, of course. Over 87 percent of county worker get to work that way – 78.6 percent of workers drive alone to the workplace, while 8.2 percent carpool.
Daily unmitigated stress will reduce your life span.
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It’s not only personal freedom, but also economic freedom and growth that require swift, safe and affordable transportation. With its early adoption of automobiles, that’s one reason why America leapfrogged Europe to become the pre-eminent economic superpower and bastion of individual liberty. After all, physical freedom is a large part of political freedom. The USSR didn’t have “Internal Passports” for nothing.
And so – like the USSR – today’s political Left is waging an undeclared war on our physical freedom as they make our cars impossibly expensive, try to force us into absurd EVs, choke roads with unused bike lanes, and progressively make driving our cars as expensive, aggravating and frustrating as possible.
Their ultimate goal – which they have already declared – is to force us into ghettos, which they’re calling “15 Minute Cities’. You will hear how wonderful these are on NPR. They’ll require you to beg for a permit to leave your ghetto – sorry, “15 Minute City”. You know, to “save the planet”….
The same Leftists will laud Public Transportation, and try to push us around and herd us like cattle.
As you can see, when people exercise their right to freedom of choice, barely anybody chooses smelly buses and worthless bicycles that drench you in rain – or sweat.
* Defend your right to drive – or you will lose it.
The left doesn’t want your cars. The left wants to reduce carbon emissions that are driving accelerated climate change.
Austin doesn’t beleive in science so his thoughts on why the left pushes the policies they push is full of consirarcy theories.
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Austin DOES believe in the process and progress of science, but understands that science is never static or unchallengeable. In fact, science is generally the process of continual challenge, until it becomes undeniably true.
So some science is settled. For example, science has determined that there are two sexes. One sex (female) has two X chromosomes; the other (male) has an X and a Y chromosome.
This is unequivocal science, but it is science that morons like Chrissy cannot accept because of their allegiance to a novel political belief – in utter disregard of the science.
Sad.