Comments on: How Do You Live Carless? There’s Only One Way to Find Out http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/2009/08/10/how-do-you-live-carless-theres-only-one-way-to-find-out/ Your guide to all things eco-friendly & fabulous! Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:49:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lisa http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/2009/08/10/how-do-you-live-carless-theres-only-one-way-to-find-out/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Lisa Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:15:29 +0000 http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/?p=200#comment-187 Your story is really inspiring. We currently have two cars though they are older and long since paid for thankfully. My husband works in another city about 30 minutes drive and we plan to replace it with a hybrid car when his current car costs more to repair than its worth. Must start saving!! We do live in a walkable neighborhood and mostly my car sits in the driveway - the stumbling block is that my kids attend a school that's not walkable (our choice). It will be a few years before my kids switch to the neighborhood school. You've inspired me to think about what we'd do if we had to make one car and the school commute work for our family. Sometimes things happen and it forces a person to think outside the box and it's not a bad thing! .-= Lisa´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.modecokids.com/index.php/2009/08/04/hike/" rel="nofollow">Hike</a> =-. Your story is really inspiring. We currently have two cars though they are older and long since paid for thankfully. My husband works in another city about 30 minutes drive and we plan to replace it with a hybrid car when his current car costs more to repair than its worth. Must start saving!! We do live in a walkable neighborhood and mostly my car sits in the driveway – the stumbling block is that my kids attend a school that’s not walkable (our choice). It will be a few years before my kids switch to the neighborhood school. You’ve inspired me to think about what we’d do if we had to make one car and the school commute work for our family. Sometimes things happen and it forces a person to think outside the box and it’s not a bad thing!
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]]> By: Jennae http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/2009/08/10/how-do-you-live-carless-theres-only-one-way-to-find-out/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Jennae Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:38:12 +0000 http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/?p=200#comment-136 @Carla It's unfortunate that public transportation is so unreliable in so many places. Thankfully, it was fairly reliable in Clarksville. I can only remember a couple of times when the bus was very late. But the knowledge that the bus is unreliable makes it that much harder to wrap your mind around living without a car. Living in a walkable neighborhood is a huge part of living sustainably, and that's our goal for when we eventually move into our own home. .-= Jennae´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/greenyourdecor/~3/PKPZY3o6Ay0/" rel="nofollow">Literally Re-Cycled: Spoke Mirror from CB2</a> =-. @Carla It’s unfortunate that public transportation is so unreliable in so many places. Thankfully, it was fairly reliable in Clarksville. I can only remember a couple of times when the bus was very late. But the knowledge that the bus is unreliable makes it that much harder to wrap your mind around living without a car. Living in a walkable neighborhood is a huge part of living sustainably, and that’s our goal for when we eventually move into our own home.
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]]> By: Carla | Green and Chic http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/2009/08/10/how-do-you-live-carless-theres-only-one-way-to-find-out/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Carla | Green and Chic Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:45:06 +0000 http://www.greenandgorgeous.net/?p=200#comment-111 We are currently living with ONE car (not carless yet) and that's even a challenge at times. Even though we live in Berkeley, we're in the hills and the bus only run 1/2 hour to ever hour and they have proved very unreliable. When I was working, driving took 15 minutes, but taking the bus, BART (our subway) and a shuttle afterwords took over an house each way. I have been stranded by the bus not showing up more than once. Though I don't think he wants to give up the car (part of his hobby), our goal is to move to a more walkable neighborhood so that we wont need it ALL THE TIME. Because of the MS, I'm not able to ride a bike and I've fallen way too many times on the bus to want to rely on it all the time. I'd love to know what others are doing as well! .-= Carla | Green and Chic´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.greenandchic.com/blog/chemicals-to-avoid/cleaning-day-blogroll/" rel="nofollow">Link Love – Cleaning Day</a> =-. We are currently living with ONE car (not carless yet) and that’s even a challenge at times. Even though we live in Berkeley, we’re in the hills and the bus only run 1/2 hour to ever hour and they have proved very unreliable. When I was working, driving took 15 minutes, but taking the bus, BART (our subway) and a shuttle afterwords took over an house each way. I have been stranded by the bus not showing up more than once.

Though I don’t think he wants to give up the car (part of his hobby), our goal is to move to a more walkable neighborhood so that we wont need it ALL THE TIME. Because of the MS, I’m not able to ride a bike and I’ve fallen way too many times on the bus to want to rely on it all the time.

I’d love to know what others are doing as well!
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