Sentences with phrase «of commuting on»

The downside of commuting on a motorcycle is the dangers of rush hour traffic and reckless drivers.

Part of the reason that we are cycling now is to do with the rapidly inflating cost of commuting on the Underground, just as much as it is due to a rise in awareness of green and health issues.

Stay in a central district like San Marco, as you'll be doing most of your commuting on foot; Hotel Duodo and budget - friendly Ca» Morosini are great choices for accommodation.

It offers families the same help as a carpool does, plus all the benefits of commuting on foot.

Two Swiss economists who studied the effect of commuting on happiness found that such factors could not make up for the misery created by a long commute.

Those pretty signs remind me of my commute on I - 94 outside of Detroit.

While a number of companies make e-bikes, with electric motors that typically have a range of 30 miles or so, Delfast plans to introduce a new model with a range of well over 200 miles, potentially offering a week's worth of commutes on one charge.

Not exact matches

Chicago's commute time is fairly high at 13.5 minutes, but transportation costs are on the low end at 27 % of annual income.

The now rich and famous writer of legal thrillers, Scott Turow, wrote his first novel using only his morning commutes into New York City on the train.

Subsidizing commutes, whether on public transit, car - sharing services or free shuttles, takes some of the pain away.

If anything the potential for disruption is greater in Alberta, where people think nothing of driving three hours each way for a weekend jaunt in the mountains and where Calgary and Edmonton are putting the finishing touches on ring roads that link far - flung suburbs and quicken the commutes from semi-rural acreages.

Firstly, allowing an employee to work from home can make them more productive on that day because they are relaxed and better rested for the lack of commute.

For someone who is always on the go, incorporating light physical activity into your commute will help offset the detrimental effects of sitting for long periods of time, as well as provide structure to your fitness routine.

Those initiatives include a greater focus on the lunch period (Starbucks» generates a lot of business in the morning commute hours), expansion in China, investing in digital, and elevating the brand through the premium - priced Reserve brand.

These two segments of aggregate demand reinforce each other because buying a house or an apartment triggers spending on consumer durable goods («big ticket» items) such as furniture, appliances and even automobiles because relocations typically change commuting patterns and lifestyles.

I've used a variety of different ones on my commutes over the years, but the best ones for avoiding tangled wires and for blocking out the noisy people on the train are the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 Wireless Headphones.

The key is to create an individualized plan that works for you based on all the factors at hand — available minutes in the day, amount of sleep required and work commute.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

Perhaps of all my possessions, the ones that make my commutes easier — despite their comparatively low cost — are highest on the list of things I most appreciate and least want to lose.

This could explain the phenomenon of doing easy jobs on «autopilot», not remembering a morning commute after arriving in the office, or experiencing other bouts of unexplained forgetfulness.

The goal is to take the uncertainty out of public transport commuting and so reduce people's reliance on cars.

But when it comes to the place to settle down, Deutsche Bank pointed to Wellington in New Zealand at the top of the quality - of - life index, based on eight variables: purchasing power, safety, healthcare, cost of living, house price - to - income, commuting time, pollution and climate.

Maybe you witness a bout of road rage on your commute to work.

I was actually commuting to Seattle because on September 10, 2001, my wife moved from San Francisco, which is where Hotwire was, to Seattle to go to med school at the University of Washington.

On - site nurseries cut out commute time for parents and make it so parents don't have to take as much time out of the work day to deal with family matters.

«It's going to become an almost two - hour commute each way, on top of 10 - hour work days,» said Weinstock, a married father of two young children.

In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.

Read a chapter of an inspiring book to motivate yourself or listen to a podcast on your commute.

Despite the growing number of cities dreaming of a car - free future, or at least a multimodal one, Ford's latest ideas bet on Americans holding onto their love of cars and their tendency to commute alone.

Despite the trend towards increased workplace flexibility in the form of perks like unlimited PTO, working from home and staggered hours to cut down on commute time, more Millennials are job hopping or leaving behind the security of full - time employment to join the gig economy.

Instead of suffering on a crowded train during your morning commute, New Yorkers can now opt for $ 5 UberPOOL rides.

Commuting has an effect on performance as it increases anger and resentment at work, absenteeism, and has a negative impact on punctuality and the ability to focus and perform at the same level as other colleagues who live nearer to the place of work.»

It's 6 a.m. on Monday morning and you find yourself racing to get out of your house to go sit in traffic on your commute to work, all the while thinking — if not dreaming — about the life you wished you had.

Getting employees to commute on two wheels instead of four can be good for wellness, morale, and sustainability.

On the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's bacOn the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's bacon top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Additionally, FlexJobs found that by not commuting to work everyday (based on an average commute time of 52 minutes), you can save an additional $ 4,867 per year.

A study by the University of the West of England found that long commutes can have an adverse effect on your wellbeing, reducing job and leisure time satisfaction, increasing strain, and worsening mental health.

It's nice to block out the rest of the world during your morning commute or to block out the screaming kid in front of you on the plane.

Each of us chases after a desirable «rating» — an average score (out of 5 stars) that's affected by everything from that sideways glance you gave the woman walking past you on your morning commute to the lack of enthusiasm you displayed for the birthday gift your co-worker gave you.

Writing on The Conversation (hat tip to Quartz for the pointer), Dembe acknowledges that workers often embrace the idea of a shorter workweek with open arms, and that this sort of schedule reduces office overhead and commuting times.

Your phone remembers the Wi - Fi sources it routinely connects to, it learns your commuting habits based on GPS and even uses algorithms to learn the nuances of your voice commands (it's how Siri and Google get better at understanding your voice over time).

«Citing Census data on male and female commutes to work, the authors partly attributed these disadvantageous geographic patterns to female entrepreneurs» desire to live closer to their businesses, perhaps because they do the lion's share of the work at home,» reports the WSJ.

Does being cut off on your morning commute bring about a fit of fiery rage at the smiling, unsuspecting grandmother in front of you?

Speaking of autonomous cars and all that, the cost of owning a car and using it for commuting will exceed the cost of relying solely on ride hailing services within 10 years, at least in Seattle and Denver, according to a study by insurance startup QuoteWizard.

We ask Amanda Steinberg, founder of DailyWorth and a busy single mom, about what she carries on regular commutes between Philly and New York.

The site rated the locations on 18 key metrics across three different categories: Business Environment (including average revenue growth per business, start - ups per capita and average length of work week and commute times), Access to Resources (number of working age, college - educated residents in the area, etc.) and Business Costs (cost of living, office space affordability and others).

Young engineering graduates could now live in an urban environment, get work done on the commute, and enjoy the pleasures of city life at night and on the weekends.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

LimeBike and Ofo will begin operating dockless bike sharing networks in San Diego on Thursday.The moves come after City Attorney Mara Elliott gave the legal OK.Environmentalists say dockless bike sharing could sharply increase use of bikes for commuting.

What these numbers do suggest is that, because commuting is such a big part of most people's driving, people in the North likely have to drive less on the average than those in the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley.