A commuter’s path…

Posted on January 18, 2007
Filed Under All, Politics, Dawn Community |

View of Adobe from the path between Caltrain's Diridon station and the adjacent VTA stationThis morning, we decided to travel with our Nikon D50 and its new ‘Christmas’ 12-24mm lens, rather than the Lumix, our new, ‘normal’ commuter camera, for some reason, and it was the Nikon combo that snapped this pic.

Lately we’ve been walking from San Jose Diridon station to Adobe on the path that goes straight from Diridon station’s front door to the nearby VTA station and then briefly joins San Fernando Street before entering McEnery Park for the short stroll to Adobe’s office complex.

Those are 2 of Adobe’s 3 towers in the distance, beyond the path and VTA platform. This is nearly the whole distance I have to walk, it takes about 15 minutes at a leisurely pace, so you can see how public-transport-friendly Adobe is.

I realize that when I stopped driving a 12-14 MPG V8 Land Rover in favor of a 30MPG 4-cylinder plus electric motor Ford Escape I was doing our future descendants a favor. But I’m being even kinder to them as my poor Ford (I really am quite fond of the car, if people can be fond of cars) languishes in our driveway (it does do a lot of the weekend chores). I think acts like using public transport, repeated by many Americans faithful to their Republic, will do far more than a ‘troop surge’ to improve world affairs….

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2 Responses to “A commuter’s path…”

  1. Anonymous on January 19th, 2007 1:38 pm

    If Adobe created more jobs outside of Silicon Valley, in places where people can afford to live where they work without spending 90 minutes a day on just commuting or burning 3 gallons of gas: that would improve world affairs.

  2. cg on January 19th, 2007 10:10 pm

    In fact, Adobe has a lot of contributors who work remotely, and productively, from relatively low wage locals in the U.S. and elsewhere.

    Adobe also provides free commuter passes (e,g. my caltrain ‘Go’ pass), and encourages employees to work from home, especially on spare the air days, and during peak electrical use days.

    I currently work 3 days in San Jose, and 2 from home. I think Adobe is about as good as any large company in this area…

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