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By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:15:59 +0000

I’ve commuted to downtown DC for about 6 months. I didn’t live close to any bus locations, but still found it easier for me to drive to a stop, park there, and take the bus in.

Traffic into the District can just be terrible.

I think combining your money saving efforts and marathon training into one would be great!

By: KMull

KMull — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:02:20 +0000

Why did I get this far?

You suckered me with the mystery option. Argh!

By: AgentSully

AgentSully — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:25:29 +0000

I used to walk to work all the time when I lived in the city and what I did was for the “sweating” part of my day I wore a different shirt. If you fold and roll your buz clothes carefully it shouldn’t be too bad. Wear sneaks to and from the office and leave your work shoes at work. You could actually even leave a week’s worth of change of clothes if you have your own office/cube and feel they’ll be safe. Then just take them to the drycleaner nearest your office.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:10:36 +0000

@mdluca – Thanks for reminding me of her move. She and I had some issues about me saying she lived near Baltimore in one of her comments and she took offense, but we’ve since resolved the misunderstanding on both sides. I had confused another PF Blogger with Single Ma and thought she lived in Columbia, MD (which to me is “near” Baltimore). I was way off.

@Nathania – I added an update at the end about my commuter benefits through work. I do get something.

@Shawn – Thanks for informing me about that pass. I generally work from home once a week (probably not this week), so the pass wouldn’t help. However, I’m going to research ways I can use my pretax spending to buy that pass when I know I need it.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:12:54 +0000

Hmmm…Another thing I just noticed…You’re paying $7.40 per day to ride the train ($37/week).

If you knew you were going to ride every day that week, it would only cost you 32.50 per week to get the 7-Day Fast Pass (a savings of 4.50 per week).

The only downside is that it’s only good for 7 consecutive days, so if you weren’t going to ride 5 consecutive work days, it wouldn’t save you any money.

By: mdluca

mdluca — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:11:41 +0000

Well I read all that cause I’m always analyzing my own commuter options. I believe SingleMa said in a few earlier posts that she took a new job in Northern Virginia and subsequently moved there as well. Not commuting from Maryland to DC.

By: Nathania Johnson

Nathania Johnson — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:06:10 +0000

I used to live in DC.

Does your employer offer fare benefits?

Otherwise, take a change of clothes and walk or bike. I do this even with my job in NC b/c my car doesn’t have air conditioning.

Plus don’t discount how much you might save by being healthy. You might prevent weight gain, which prevents you from having to buy bigger clothes. And you may save a lot of health care costs by being more healthy.

ALSO – be sure to see if you can get a discount on your health insurance by exercising!

By: plonkee

plonkee — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:40:22 +0000

I would change and walk. I hate multi-stage public transport journeys and waiting round. I walk to work myself anyway, but it doesn’t really get that hot over here. And I don’t have to iron my work clothes.