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You've been to Fire Island? You sure you're not gay?

There is a good public transportation system here, it's just not great yet. 20% of us ride it to work every day.

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17%.

I'm part of the lucky 6.2% that walks to work

6. You run red lights to be carbon neutral

I was confused by this question. Af first, I thought it meant: Do I use special red colored energy saver light bulbs in my apartment?

I was confused, too. I tend to coast, which usually puts me all-battery, if I'm approaching a red light. Why should I burn more gas just to get to a red light faster?

You don't like Barack with his shirt off? What's your problem?

I'm progressive and I can give a two shits about Obama. I guess I'm not as progressive as I thought I was.

17% was in 2005, since then metro's ridership has gone up 18%.
Population has gone up 2.3%. The math works out to 19.66% of people today ride the bus.