Originally Posted by acorn54
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i work about 3 miles from my house and only use my car for t he travel to work and back and i only put about $20 (10 gallons) of gas in my car. if my car gets 20mpg and i drive only 180 m iles a month you can see why i only use $240 year in gas. yes my insurance is 600 year since i dont have collision and my car is a 1988 cutlass cierra. so that is $840/yr. my maintenance and repair and inspection costs were $600 for the past year so that's a total of $1440 in cost for my car. a bus every day 7 days a week costs me $1500 for the year if i used it to get to work and to do errands.
acorn
Provided you don't get any tickets or have to pay for parking, the costs would be, as you point out, similar to transit. But driving and transit just aren't as healthy or fun as bicycling and once you have paid off the bike (equating it to the cost of transit or a car) you are MAKING money. Our transit pass here is $98.00 a month so I figure I need to ride for about 13 months to pay-off my newest bike: after that, I am saving that hundred bucks a month. For my other three bikes, I only had to ride 6-7 months to have them covered.