This winter’s shaping up to be a stormy one, with major storms hitting before our transition to winter (the 21st of this month)\u00a0 and more likely to come.\u00a0 Roads are slick and sidewalks perilous; however, we are members of a university that never seems to close, so we must make our way nonetheless.<\/p>\n
Biking is almost out of the question, though a few hardy souls two-wheel through the ice and snow.\u00a0 Driving is oftentimes frustrating, if not hazardous, in weather like this.\u00a0 Walking gets you from point A to point B, but slowly and at the full mercy of the weather.<\/p>\n
And yet all to often we neglect one of the safest, most efficient, comfortable and economical ways to commute: the city bus.\u00a0 With free fares for the OSU community, the Corvallis Transit System<\/a> offers economical service to a large portion of town with twice-hourly or hourly routes<\/a>.\u00a0 It is warm and carefree.\u00a0 And it is consistent; day after day, through freezing rain, snow or sleet, it lumbers along its routes.\u00a0 It is safe too; the National Safety Council estimates that riding the bus is 170 times safer than automobile travel.<\/p>\n The benefits<\/a> to using mass transit are numerous, to both yourself<\/a> and the community<\/a>.\u00a0 And a recent study<\/a> showed countries that most heavily relied on alternative transportation, which includes mass transit, had the lowest obesity rates.<\/p>\n So the next time the rain pours (or freezes) and the snow falls, remember the bus.\u00a0 It’s a great way to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This winter’s shaping up to be a stormy one, with major storms hitting before our transition to winter (the 21st of this month)\u00a0 and more likely to come.\u00a0 Roads are slick and sidewalks perilous; however, we are members of a university that never seems to close, so we must make our way nonetheless. Biking is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}