Do you walk to work? More importantly, could you walk to
work even if you wanted to? Most of us nowadays find seldom opportunity to
stretch our legs given our ever more chaotic lifestyles. Walking offers so many
benefits not least the benefits to health. It is National Get Walking Week as promoted by www.ramblers.org.uk until 10 May 2014 and we are encouraged to get out and walk. As the recently departed Bob Hoskins famously
said in a 90's advertisement campaign, ‘It’s good to talk’, and Ramblers could
be well served in borrowing from that to say ‘It’s good to Walk’. But is it
always?
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http://www.ramblers.org.uk/go-walking/get-walking-week.aspx
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Could we all get by just walking?
No doubt walking is something that most would agree needs to
be encouraged but aside from rambling in the hills and brisk walks about town
we seldom find much time to make walking a practical part of our daily lives.
‘Driving me lazy’, or
just plain necessary?
We’ve mentioned walking to work because, let’s face it, our
longest, most important critical journeys of the day tend to be based around
getting to and from work. For most of us to try doing that would be
inconceivable. Walking to work simply wouldn’t be an option.
The latest census, carried out in 2011 shows that out of
41,126,540 people 37.1% drive to work whilst a paltry 6.9% make the journey by
foot. Taking into account the location of the Manchester offices of Geoffrey Miller Solicitors it is interesting to
note that in the city of Manchester a lower figure of 25.1% drive to work
compared to 8% who walk. Our London office can look to an even smaller figure of
reference of 18.3% who drive to work and 5.8% who walk.
Walking as a functional part of everyday life is clearly
reflective of the surrounding circumstances of an individual. The location; the
type of work; the distance of the commute; the transport infrastructure are all
relevant to whether it is feasible to walk to places when we need to be
somewhere. For the most part those of us who drive do so because we have to.
This isn’t what the Ramblers Get Walking Week week is about
of course. It’s about encouraging more people to walk when they get the
opportunity to get some of the many benefits from doing so. Imagine if that
isn’t a choice though. Imagine if you were forced to consider walking more
places. Whether it be walking the whole journey or walking in between various
forms of public transport it would put a lot of us in a lot of difficulty, not
just for getting to work but as part of our jobs in some cases!
We help thousands of people in that position who contact us
and ask us each year to find a way to help them keep their
licences and keep them from having walking forced upon them, ultimately asking
us to help them keep their jobs and livelihoods! We have a phenomenal success
rates in helping our clients achieve this objective so please make sure you do give us a call should you have a motoring query
of any type. Make
sure that any time you walk in the future is your choice and you take the view
that ‘It’s good to walk!’
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