In my community in chu”l, there was an elderly couple who were Yekkes from the old country. He commuted all his working years by public transportation because he held private car ownership to be a frivolous mishegas, and overall, I don’t think I ever met a better example of refinement and hatznea leches. She was the Phys. Ed. teacher at the local BY wannabe school, and she commuted the @ 3 mile trip (one way) by bicycle, well into her eighties. Nobody voiced any complaint about this, and this is a town where chumras are hard currency.
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