Forget the diet, sell your car!

[Tank]

Surge in Obesity Correlates With Increased Automobile Usage, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (May 11, 2011) — Junk food, video games and a lack of exercise all have received their fair share of blame for the spiraling epidemic of obesity in the U.S. But according to a University of Illinois researcher, public health enemy No. 1 for our supersized nation may very well be the one staple of modern life most Americans can't seem to live without one (or more) of: the automobile...

Well there you go! Walk that extra mile and lose that extra pound!

[Asmodean]

Re: Forget the diet, sell your car!

...If only I were willing to spend half a day walking...

[Tank]

Re: Forget the diet, sell your car!

...If only I were willing to spend half a day walking...

Well according to the article all you really need to do is stop a mile away from where you work and walk the difference. Trouble is what happens in bad weather. That's the killer really, people don't like cold and wet unless they are doing something for pleasure like sailing or skiing. Which is why we like cars in the first place they're our own personal little travelling cocoon. Having said that over the last year I've been doing the half mile walk as parking near college in Bradford is either horrifically expensive or limited to a 2 hour stop.

[Cecilie]

You can't walk in tunnels (we have a lot of them, you see), so that'd make walking to the town centre rather difficult.

[Tank]

You can't walk in tunnels (we have a lot of them, you see), so that'd make walking to the town centre rather difficult.

I assume this is because they are dangerous?

[Cecilie]

You can't walk in tunnels (we have a lot of them, you see), so that'd make walking to the town centre rather difficult.

I assume this is because they are dangerous?

Something like that.

[Whitney]

It makes sense...but I'm not walking in the cold or rain unless I can't afford the gas to power my car (in which case I'd probably not be able to afford the store I was walking to anyway).

I do, however, live within a mile to two miles of various shops and plan to walk over to them (or ride a bike) when the weather is nice and I don't need to carry much back.

[Asmodean]

You can't walk in tunnels (we have a lot of them, you see), so that'd make walking to the town centre rather difficult.

I assume this is because they are dangerous?

Something like that.

Exhaust and traffic.

Being in a tunnel for a relatively long time can probably get you a bad case of CO poisoning if the ventilation is idling or off. Additionally, car tunnels do not have sidewalks but they DO have lorries. Playing chicken with those... Bad idea.

[Cecilie]

You can't walk in tunnels (we have a lot of them, you see), so that'd make walking to the town centre rather difficult.

I assume this is because they are dangerous?

Something like that.

Exhaust and traffic.

In other words: dangerous.

[The Magic Pudding]

All this tunnel talk, doesn't fit with Norway's image of a well ordered society.

[Cecilie]

All this tunnel talk, doesn't fit with Norway's image of a well ordered society.

It fits with our imagine of having a lot of mountains. It would be a pain in the ass driving around or over them.

[Asmodean]

All this tunnel talk, doesn't fit with Norway's image of a well ordered society.

It fits with our imagine of having a lot of mountains. It would be a pain in the ass driving around or over them.

...What wilth closed crossings, avalanches, hopelessly bad drivers, hopelessly bad drunk drivers, big rigs from Eastern Europe, wabbits and gas prices...

[Cecilie]

All this tunnel talk, doesn't fit with Norway's image of a well ordered society.

It fits with our imagine of having a lot of mountains. It would be a pain in the ass driving around or over them.

...What wilth closed crossings, avalanches, hopelessly bad drivers, hopelessly bad drunk drivers, big rigs from Eastern Europe, wabbits and gas prices...

What wabbits?

Also, gas prices doesn't annoy me yet. I drive a scooter. Full tank = 70 kr.

[Asmodean]

What wabbits?

Evil ones... I dunno'... Just seemed right to put them in there.

[Velma]

Re: Forget the diet, sell your car!

...If only I were willing to spend half a day walking...

Well according to the article all you really need to do is stop a mile away from where you work and walk the difference. Trouble is what happens in bad weather. That's the killer really, people don't like cold and wet unless they are doing something for pleasure like sailing or skiing. Which is why we like cars in the first place they're our own personal little travelling cocoon. Having said that over the last year I've been doing the half mile walk as parking near college in Bradford is either horrifically expensive or limited to a 2 hour stop.

If I parked a mile away from work, I'd be parking on the highway - good chance of my car getting towed, not to mention me getting a ticket for walking along the highway, and I don't relish walking a mile in the dark at 2 am after a 10 hour shift on my feet.  Good idea, but not practical for quite a few people.