Toys for Transport?

EvilCabbage asks: "Let's imagine I have a distance to travel to get to my office. Much of this is done on a train line, but there is a distance of around 10klm (aprox 6.2miles) from my home to this train station. A little too far to walk, but not quite far enough to justify use of my car every day. Fortunately, the Segway isn't on my shopping list. I'm wondering what parambulating devices are available to make this journey a little easier, without turning the key in my car. Bicycles are generally too large to carry on the train, and couldn't be left in my office all day. I've seen some scooters that fold to rather small sizes (perfect for lugging to the office and back), but are these things still for kids? What small urban transport devices are fellow Slashdot readers using (assuming we are still going outside)? What can you recommend and what won't cost me an arm and a leg to run?"

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Re:Public Transit

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Yeah, that was my idea as soon as I read this too. I mean, unless this guy works at some place that's located six miles from a train stop in the middle of the salt flats. That's the only situation I can think of where it would be flat enough to use a scooter, but there wouldn't be a bus that dropped him off closer to his work.

Sounds like this guy just wants an excuse to use one of those Razor scooters.

Hey man, you wanna play? Go for it. But I'd recommend choosing a more standard route. Either take the bus, or use a bike. There may be an arrangement that the public transit people make for bikes -- maybe you can store them somewhere at the train station or something. Who knows. I do know that most cities' public transit systems now realize that they need to start catering to bikers, since they tend to be a nice portion of the users of public transit. All of the buses in our town have a bike rack in the front and back.