Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing Commute Survey

[Diane (dianeclaire]

Hi Joani,

I put your query out on the cambridge Cohousing list serve.   I will forward
the answers I got to you.  As you can see from the responses, it is almost
impossible to reduce the variety of commutes or even one person, much less
the whole communite, to the neat list you sent.    I hope these answers are
helpful to you.   Few people responded, the rest, I guess, either don't
commute, or commute by car.

Wishing you happy hollidays,

Diane

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Joani Blank <joani [at] swansway.com> wrote:

>
> If you live in a completed cohousing community (even if it's newly
> completed and not yet fully occupied), I'd appreciate you sending out
> the following to the residents of your community.
> ____________________________________
>
> *Of the employed (or self-employed) adults who live in your household,
> how many commute to work (most or every workday) in each of the
> following ways:
>
> ----- Walk
> ----- Ride a bicycle
> ------Ride a scooter or motorcycle
> ------Use public transportation
> ------Drive a hybrid car
> ------Drive an all-electric car
> ___Drive an alternative fuel vehicle (eg.. natural gas, bio-diesel)
> ___Drive a "regular" gas car
>
> or
>
> ____Work at home
>
> Please reply to me. I will collect the responses, add 'em up and send
> the total for our community to Joani Blank of Swan's Market Cohousing in
> Oakland who wants to collect this info for an article she hopes to
> submit for publication the Cohousing e-magazine.
> *
> _________________________________
>
> f you happen to know the answer to this question for every adult who
> lives in your community, you can simply do a tally---doesn't have to be
> 100% accurate---and not bother to forward the text between the lines
> above to all your neighbors.
>
> Note: This is not an official survey from the Cohousing Association,
> Just something that interests me (and I hope some of you as well). Even
> if I don't do an article for the e-magazine of Coho/US, I'll send a
> summary to all who respond.
>
> Joani
> p.s.  I sent a similar survey out via cohousing-l in 2001, and got a
> dozen responses and hope to get twice that many this time.
> *
>
> *
>
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Diane Margolis
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