What is your preferred mode of transportation?

within reason people, no 767 jet liners, or black hawk choppers :heee:

I go everywhere by bike. Most people will go for the odd bike ride now and again, and when it comes to get off the bike, they are all 'ah, nice to be off the saddle'. For me, I'll ride my bike somewhere, walk around, and then when I get back to the bike, I'm all 'ah, nice to be back on the saddle' :biggrin:

Bicycle. HAS to be. :smile:

Yippie Ki Yay!

2 things, i prefer cars, but mostly i hate to see "other" checked with no explanation :razz:

unless its a boat, what is left that you could possibly vote for other?

Orpheus said:
unless its a boat, what is left that you could possibly vote for other?

Hmmm.... Now lemme just think up something so I can be a smart ass :biggrin:

Yippie Ki Yay!

In Manchester, we have a metrolink system. I live around 10 minutes away from one station, so it's very easy to get around the city using this. So really it's just a combination of this and walking that gets me around. :smile:

ahh, a subway.. cool deal.. kinda goes astray of the poll, but tis ok since it is your preferred mode :smile: i don;t see you purchasing one though

Well, it's not actually a subway, it's an overground thing. But it's the same thing really,, except it runs around the middle of the streets. Think of it like the cable car system in San Francisco, except faster, useful and a lot less queuing up. :smile: Oh, and less bloody tourists. :biggrin:

Behold!

Only because nobody in their right mind would want to visit manchester

</southern fairy> :razz:

yeah, kinda figured as much.. we don't have them in Arkansas, but the east coast does.. they have all sorts of names i suppose.. we might get someone from there to give us a list. .. i have heard "subway" and "L train"

Only because nobody in their right mind would want to visit manchester

</southern fairy> :razz:

I honestly cannot argue with that; besides maybe Old Trafford ground, there isn't much use in visiting our City. :smile:

maybe if they renamed the city to a more politically correct name?? "Personchester"

/runs

Man : A human regardless of sex or age; a person.

TAKE THAT RICKENBAKER! :razz:

Alien_Sniper said:
Man : A human regardless of sex or age; a person.

TAKE THAT RICKENBAcKER! :razz:

/me looks on in awe and wonder.. wonder at what the hell you are talking about..

I own a Ford F-150 P/u truck. Guess I have been driving Pick ups for about 11 years now. I use them in my work and at my house for remodel purposes(Lumber, drywall, etc). The only drawback is that family members always call when they need something picked up.

Kage_Prototype said:
Well, it's not actually a subway, it's an overground thing. But it's the same thing really,, except it runs around the middle of the streets. Think of it like the cable car system in San Francisco, except faster, useful and a lot less queuing up. :smile: Oh, and less bloody tourists. :biggrin:

Could it possibly be... that you are talking about a TRAM?

Could it possibly be... that you are talking about a TRAM?

Funnily enough, yes I am. How'd you guess? :razz:

They're called light rail.

In Oregon the public transportation system's (TRIMet) Light rail is called MAX. Pretty gay though, because it costs almost 2 bucks and takes forever because there are so many stops. It's faster to drive and sit in traffic (and the transportation committee wonders why the hell no one uses it :rolleyes: ).

By the way, in case anyone cares, the mayor of Portland, Vera Kats, has cancer. And I say good; I hope that bitch dies. :smile:

There's a lot of s**t her and her ass-raped committee should be doing better and aren't.

<DIV>Come to Melbourne, then you'll know about trams, they're everywhere in the city centre. The guys who run the job have also decided to be nice and give free rides on the "City Loop" tram, further increasing popularity. Hell, we even have a crazy road rule called a "hook turn" (you have to turn left if you want to turn right), which, weird as it may sound, actually makes it easier to travel when dealing with trams.</DIV>
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<DIV>Plus, down here, they're not slow - they go at about the speed of a bus which skips all the traffic. Quite useful, really.</DIV>
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<DIV>Apart from the trams, though, the public transport system here in Melbourne is horrible. You can get from place to place on it, if you don't mind a series of 15-minute walks and you live within 20km of the city centre, but the trains and buses are horribly infrequent. Probably because the system is going bankrupt... THANKS KENNETT!!! </DIV>

Good to see another Melbourne resident here. :biggrin: Yeah, our trains are terrible unless you're going into the city, thats if you live right next to the station.

This question is a bit skewed. It asks what our preferred method of transportation is...but then it says if we had the money for it. Because personally I like walking, biking and public transit. But if I had the free money to support it I'd buy a nice truck. (not an SUV, a real truck.)

Juim said:
I own a Ford F-150 P/u truck. Guess I have been driving Pick ups for about 11 years now. I use them in my work and at my house for remodel purposes(Lumber, drywall, etc). The only drawback is that family members always call when they need something picked up.

I drive me a '90 F150. It's my father's, but with the cost of gas and the non-necessity of needing a truck, it's just there when I need it. I love it though, my dad's a carpenter/cabinetmaker so it gets used for lumber, furniture and the like. As well as garden duties. I think its nickname "The Beast" suits it well.

I'm in Adelaide and I use the bus. The bus system in Adelaide is good, provided you know how everything works. Theres a cool set of tracks, like... train tracks for buses, made of concrete... Gets me to the city centre in about half an hour where it would normally take 40min to an hour by car.

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[*] More than 7 million passengers a year, including local, interstate and overseas visitors, use the O-Bahn. The system is capable of moving 18,000 people an hour in each direction.
[*] The busway consists of 5,800 sleepers, 5,600 pylons drilled to a depth of 3 metres, 4,200 track pieces, 25 bridges, 8 pedestrian overpasses and a 60 metre-long tunnel.
[*] Compared with equivalent rail systems, the O-Bahn is almost 50 per cent cheaper to operate while providing a faster, more flexible service than many other transit systems.
[*] At the time of building, the entire O-Bahn project, (including the bus fleet) cost $98 million

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I'd buy me one of them Segways

I'd buy a yacht! It doesn't have to have a golf course or olympic-sized pool on it. Any old yacht will do.

Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

A Jetpack with a 600 mile range that was cheap to run :smile:

And a few rockets to blow up caravans, grrrr !

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Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

ermm they do exist :razz:



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I live near Sydney and the public transport is terrible trains always run late (or not at all, sometimes replaced by busses), (and now the government says that 10min late is actually not late )
busses are not much better and in quite a state of disrepair, The light
rail (tram) system howeve is quite good as well as the monorail. The
government were deciding wether to build one of those mag-lev super
fast trains linking Sydney to the South East Coast & Canberra
region but now that is not going to happen :sad:

I'm a bicycle man ... definitely. :biggrin:

$loth said:
Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

sometimes sloth, you make my head hurt.

Hovercraft 0wn j00.

Apparently, an equal number of people ride horses as drive trucks...

Orpheus said:

$loth said:
Hovercraft!!!!! if only they existed.........

sometimes sloth, you make my head hurt.

ones which travel on land? :razz:

Ummm, there are ones that travel on land and ones that travel on water,
but I guess one of the best features of them is that they can all
basically travel on both!

ReNo said:
Ummm, there are ones that travel on land and ones that travel on water, but I guess one of the best features of them is that they can all basically travel on both!

as SJ proves : He turned the supply on, and the coil hovvered about 2 inches off the table. :biggrin:

What the hell is going on? Don't bring me into this insanity :razz:

me hands $loth a larger shovel

keep digging :razz:

why do some cops in New York still use horses? and do they sell grass at gas stations?

Orpheus said:
within reason people, no 767 jet liners, or black hawk choppers :heee:

SGS-233a my friend :biggrin:

I voted other. If not that, then the city bus.

Kain said:
why do some cops in New York still use horses? and do they sell grass at gas stations?

this is actually one of the funniest lines i have seen all week..

beer hunter said:
A Jetpack with a 600 mile range that was cheap to run :smile:

And a few rockets to blow up caravans, grrrr !

Then everyone gets one, and you have to wait in lines 200 feet above the ground... =|

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ones which travel on land? :razz:

The one in the pic I posted is on land :rolleyes:

My ride:

A Jetpack with a 600 mile range that was cheap to run :smile:
And a few rockets to blow up caravans, grrrr !

Then everyone gets one, and you have to wait in lines 200 feet above the ground... =|

lol, never though of that. Still, it would be fun blowing up caravans, hovercraft and weirdo's on unicycles :smile:

My ride:

I've got those pedals :smile:

beer hunter said:

A Jetpack with a 600 mile range that was cheap to run :smile:
And a few rockets to blow up caravans, grrrr !

Then everyone gets one, and you have to wait in lines 200 feet above the ground... =|

lol, never though of that. Still, it would be fun blowing up caravans, hovercraft and weirdo's on unicycles :smile:

My hovercraft :eek:

[size=13][color=white]My ride:

I've got those pedals :smile: [/color][/size]

BMX?

No, Mountain bike. Loads of people have those pedals, they all come from the same factory but are sld under about a thousand different names :smile: I think you pay somrthing like ?25 for them under the name 'V8', but I got mine for ?12 under some name I had never heard of - lasted years of punishment!

This is what I will travel in...

http://www.moller.com/skycar/

Bwaf, pwns all your theeble vehicles!

The m200, is what i meant by hovercraft :razz: I saw it a few months ago, but couldn't remember the name :sad: