Living Car Free - Environment, Exercise, or Other: Reasons for being carfree

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BarracksSi
10-31-07, 04:49 PM
(car lite)

Convenience.

Yup, really. I can get to work faster by bike than I can by car. Bonus points for being more fun and better exercise.

LittleBigMan
11-02-07, 09:25 PM
I'm curious if there are carfree cyclists out there who do it for reasons other than its low environmental impact or the great exercise that accompanies it.
I not car-free, but my family owns one car, and I haven't used it to get to work for 12 years (except that I hitch a ride sometimes for convenience.)

My primary trans is bike/bus/train inbound to work, bike all the way home. That might change, as usual, to more biking.

The bottom line: any trip you can take on a bike is a giant victory. (I like to envision a future society that looks to us cyclists for advice on how to travel 5, 10, 20 miles without a car, in a reasonable time.