Do you spend most of your week driving north, south, east or west on the freeways?

No.

I very rarely get on the freeway these days. When I drive to work though I always head southeast. When I lived in the LA area it always felt odd to me going east because it always seemed I was heading north, south, or west.

Predominantly east/west… Unless I’m visiting family, in which case it’s south/north… Though the main journey east I’ve been doing of late involves going south on one, er, freeway, then east across, then a final part south…

I work in Concord, California, and adjoining cities, like Brentwood, Oakley, Antioch, Pittsburg, Richmond, Hercules, Pinole, El Sobrante, Martinez, Walnut Creek, Orinda, Lafayette, and Moraga. The Highways in this area are 4, 242, 24, 680, 580, and 80. Since these are all even numbered freeways, they are technically East West. I think the closest North South freeway is 101 in San Francisco, or 5, which is quite a ways away.

Most every day I drive about 40 or 50 miles, mostly west, to the privately owned and operated arboretum to spend my days away. Drive the same distance then back mostly east. It almost seems like a flawed question, as since for most of us our starting point is our ending point we’d spend equal amounts of north & south and east & west. I mean, if you go you gotta come back.

I organize my life so I never have to commute to work on a highway. Not in any direction! The idea than we have to use cars to get to work seems so environmentally unfriendly. I find it highly ironic that California—a state where citizens seem to be very interested in environmentalism—are willing to spend so much time in their cars driving to work.

No freeway driving but I drive more North and South.
N – take my kids to school, S – back home, E – to work, W – back home, N – pick up kids, S – back home N – to school, S – back home

@filmfann I didn’t realize you were that close.

I live in a valley that runs East/West (Lafayette on the Hwy 24 corridor), I work in San Francisco and usually go to Oakland for entertainment, so I am almost always going east/west. But I take the train for commuting, I don’t drive unless I have to.

I avoid freeways as often as possible. I get in a car less than once a week.

I do north/south every day for work, and since there is nothing more west than me but everglades, I have to go east (and then back west) to get anywhere!

I drive N and S equally, also E and W equally, each day – that way I can go to work then get back home at then end of the day.

@wundayatta Actually California is serving as the leading state in investing in better environment technologies. But that’s for another question. Highways are amazing. They get you from point A to point B because not every place is built like New York City, Chicago and San Francisco, those are real self sustaining American cities. The rest of the U.S. well, we like to work one place and live in another :D

@wundayatta Welcome to the world of human nature.

I do a lot of driving on I-65 in and around Nashville. And then south on 65 to Birmingham and west into MS. My best drive is coming back from there, leaving about 1–2pm with the sun directly to my back on a sunny warm day in the Fall. Somehow that sun totally to my back just energizes me.

I think I spend about ⅔ of my time driving north on the 405 freeway, and about 1/6 driving north on the 101.

A southerly direction along a motorway in northern england.
Anywhere north from here basically get’s you to Scotland & we can’t be having that, now can we ;¬}

All I’m saying is that we all make choices about where an how to live. No one is forcing you to live in a place where you have to commute an hour or two by car each way to work. No one is forcing you to vote for politicians who are against public transportation or who vote against stricter CAFE standards or against regulations to clean up power plants. Not to suggest that any of you do or don’t vote like that. I mean the generic you as in the entire population.

We have choices. Most of us think that is is very valuable to live where we grew up or where our friends are or where we feel comfortable. In order to do that, we may have to drive a lot. Most of us also believe in being green. I think that somehow people justify the disconnect between driving a hundred miles to work and still being green. I’m not sure how they do it, but I know people do.

I understand these choices, but I think people often hide from themselves that they are actually making choices. I think people feel like they are trapped and are making the best of the situation. I’d just like people to look again. You don’t have to move to San Francisco, but there are ways of making LA better. If consumers want it, LA will become more green.

@wundayatta Actually I know tons of young adults who are still under control of their families roof rules so long as they are attending college. And plus highways are great, they allow trade, and in San Diego in particular you’ve got the mountain and the beaches about 25 minutes away from each other! My point is, there are many different kinds of cultures just highways away from each other.

Our freeways are crazy, you can go all the way across town (south) on a west bound freeway.