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Hello Rob,
I live in my City where was my study place . I had to by bad . Although I do not like bus journey ,I had to use it because it was cheap . I like train journey . Because it did not stopped in Traffic jam.

Your writing is really excellent and dynamic .By reading your writing it seems to me I could feel the train journey that I like . It seems to me I was standing on a platform and could hear whistle ,raid rood sound that amazed me .

Thank you fro nice writing .. ..

Hi Lito and everyone here,

Let me introduce myself, I´m a ever returning ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ English language´s fan, I love reading about the beauty of people, nature, culture. It let´s me know what happens on the oder side of the world. All this learning English. Besides, I love sharing experiences with bloggers around the world.. so here I am again hope to learn a bit more english and to support with my comments. I almost forgot it I am from Peru.
And your pictures looks like if they came out of a dream. At the beginning I though it must one of those tricks ... what a challenge to clime a 60 ft high coconut tree! I get better start drilling
I am looking forward to your next post

oops sorry Rob, my post was ment for Lito... commuting, I love commuting because is a kind of surprise box you might meet someone you know, a collegue a friend or just a person who tries to chat with you while traveling. Most people travel with themselfs which makes a kind of lugubruos environement But whenever you meet someone you know can be a little party inside a train, that is really great !

Hello Rob
When I had the text read first of all I thought, why Russian language have no word to express the idea of ‘commuting’. You have to say long sentence to explain its meaning. In my point of view the language lags behind life. It’s quite a new problem in Russia appeared in last 20 years. There was a big change in occupation of citizens. In Soviet period a majority used to be work on factories placed around a city and leave next-door. Now many plants are destroyed or closed. Many people become to work in new business and trade centers located in the sinter of city.
A township I live was build for workers of Samara Aircraft Engine Factory. Now the factory is almost destroyed so people need go to work 20 kilometers to city center. Every day I spend about one and half hour sitting in a bus and going through traffic jams to the office. The total time is over one month a year!
Thanks traffic jams I have an opportunity to study English:)
Best regards
Victor

Hi Sero
Thanks for your comments. It is rare to hear from somebody who loves commuting but if you are having 'a little party on the train' then that is great. I love that you have used the word 'lugubrious' which means mournful or gloomy but I hope your commuting is not that!

Thanks Victor for your interesting post. You make a good point that years ago people would live next door to where they work and now they have to travel to work. This means we waste time travelling but as Sero mentioned, you can make new friends too.

Hello Rob

I read your post with interest. I actually enjoy commuting, especially by bus. The only thing I don't like is the copious amount of pollution which you have to bear with it every single day.

Rob, Your everyday routine to commute got me thinking that if you ever get a chance to break away from it, what will you like to do?

With best wishes,

Naheed

Rob, your experiences with commuting make me think that you are a very patient man. I'm lucky for finding a job 10 blocks from my house. That is to say that it's a 20 minutes walking distance or a 10 minutes distance by bus. However, I'm too lazy to walk so I take the bus instead. Every time I get off the bus I think the same, that if I had to continue the journey for more time in that overcrowded public transport I would have not be able to endure it!
Perhaps the public transport in England is more comfortable. Here is very cheap and very uncomfortable.
Have a nice day,
Cris form Argentina

Hi.

I used to commute to work by bus and I spent almost 2 hours. While going to work, I was able to study English or read a book. Now I am going to work by car and I spend almost 40 minutes.

Wilson
From Londrina/Brazil

Hello everybody:

I totally agree with Cristina. Commuting in Buenos Aires is really cathastrofic! The traffic is caotic. Buses, trains, tubes are always overcrowded and dirty. There are traffic jams anywhere. It´s an old and serious problem very difficult to solve. The transport system is private but the state subsidize the price that is very cheap indeed. I hope to see someday at least the start of a solution. It´ll require great investments and an adecquate distribution of funds. My regards. Beatriz - Argentina.

I hate commuting!! This is a whole subject to me. I live in the city (not downtown, but relatively near) and I have to travel just outside the city to get where I'm doing my internship. When I use the public transport I spent about an hour and a half in my journey... using Rob words, fortunately I've developed a capacity to endure this. When I arrive home I am usually very tired, but waste 3 hours per day is not the thing that I most hate. The rush hour in Santiago is terrible, either by subway, bus or car. By subway you need to share one square meter with 7 other travelers, and if you like using the highway forget to move as fast as you wanted.
Luckily, I've been sharing car with my boss, I have to wake up earlier but I save the rush hour.

Regards!

I am from Rio de Janeiro and I live about 40 minutes from the city centre, in a suburb and I can tell you that the public transport here is one of the worst in the world.trains,buses and boats are always crowded and the traffic jam is terrible.The city will have an opportunity to improve it as there will be the Olympic games and some world cup matches here too. I hope that things here will change quickly. the situation here is chaotic. I have ever been to England and I could see the difference in terms of quality. everything works perfectly.

Hi Rob! It's a great pleasure having the opportunity to comment on your blog, also would like to thank the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ for giving us this invaluable opportunity to really practise our skills in using this wonderful language, English, thanks ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. First of all, I would like to let you know that I am one of those Sierra Leoneans who has been commuting to and fro all their lives, in the capital city, Freetown and the outskirts and now living and commuting to and from work in a Russian town 600 kilometres from Moscow, Voronezh, sometimes in the winter in a minus 25 degrees temperature and sometimes in the summer in a plus 32 degrees temperature. The most interesting thing about commuting to and from work is that it gives you the opportunity to gaze through the window of the when it is boring looking around you in the bus and also to get the opportunity to learn a lot about the people around you, especially in Russia where the tradition of using the bus is a bit different from my city, Freetown and even perhaps in London. The bus is sometimes very full, even crowded to every nook and corner, but you can't imagine that in a situation like this people will be busy collecting bus fares of each and everyone and passing it on from one and other until the whole sum reaches the Driver or Conductor and no one will dare not pay, can you imagine?
Another thing about commuting in this country, which I cherish the most is the fact that I do have the opportunity to think a lot and sometimes some of my most powerful and worthwhile ideas and I even sometimes get the cues and hints for my lessons in the bus while commuting to work, By the way, I work as a Teacher of the English Language in the city of Voronezh in Russia, and I have been working here for about fourteen years now since I finished studies in 1996 at the Voronezh State University and I couldn't go back to Freetown because of the terrible civil war within the period of 1990-2000 and so I decided to stay and try to make myself useful by crusading with the Queen's Language, wish the Queen would honour me oh that was a joke, and never mind that, getting back to the business of commuting, it is the best way to really get to know the people around you as you will definitely come across those who will want to meet you and those who will test your patience by pressing themselves on you knowing fully well that you are not even half their size and but that is what commuting means as far as I am concern, sometimes though, you will be accosted by stressed and aggress