But if I take a bus, the bus only emits about a quarter of a pound per mile that the bus drives per person in the bus.

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"I am also grateful to Geoff Gollop for agreeing to become my deputy mayor, and who will therefore take over should I carelessly go under a First Bus, " he added.

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It was my first foray out of the US, and with my small budget, I adopted a purist travel ethic: eat simply, take the local bus and suffer nobly.

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At 0430 this morning I was in a hotel in the French Alps waiting for a bus to take me through a blizzard to Geneva Airport and home.

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This immediately struck me as odd, since any other hotel of this size and price I have been to either has it owns shuttle or would simply have a bellman take me over, but I schlepped down the driveway in the tropical heat and waited for the bus.

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Take to the adjacent roadway and invite being creamed by a bus or cab? (Usually, I do.) Or simply slow down, even stop, telling yourself that five or 10 years from now nobody will remember you were seven minutes late to whatever appointment you're heading to?

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