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Originally Posted by Hitch
You're in a village, though--perhaps there's a local person who has a small field? Could you drop the horse off, and hoof it the rest of the way to the office, and reverse the process in the evening?
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Even if, where would I leave the horse in the evening? I don't have a field myself, and my backyard isn't really big enough for a horse
It's a small town; it's not yet so small as to be called a village.
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Just an idea. GOT to be better than what you suffer on the bus. (Can you ride something like a Seque? Segway? Sorry, don't know the spelling for the device...if it was good enough for Michael Schumacher, after all...) Some type of personal transportation device?
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I could ride a bike, and have ridden a moped for almost 10 years (from age 16 to 25); hoewever, about 15 years ago, local governments thought that roundabouts would be better to prevent traffic jams, so they started to replace all traffic lights / intersections with roundabouts.
They are indeed better in preventing traffic jams, but they don't have the same 'I have to watch out here' intimidation factor of the red light. Traffic has become absolutely mayhem, even in the south, where it's not so busy. Everybody's like:
"I can STILL get into the roundabout by squeezing my 500 kg car in between that big ass 10.000 kg truck and the bus! If I don't, I have to wait 10 seconds... OH NO!"
To many, a roundabout is a little sort of irregularity in an otherwise straight roads, for which you don't even have to brake. Roundabouts scare me to death, and we got *A LOT* of them here now.
When they got to removing about every traffic light under the sun from the town where I live, I switched to public transport.