Tag: bus
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Bit of a shock
Walking in the streets around your house is normal and everyday if you are car-free. You head out of your front door and you walk. OK you might also be wheeling, or cycling, or something along those lines – but in car-free-dom you are often likely going to self-propelling your body around your locale. Car-free…
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Not getting hooked
In some news you read that car ownership by younger people is dropping. Other news suggests that is it generally rising and seen as a more achieveble ‘status enhancing’ purchase than a home. Looking at a fairly recent review of car ownership trends in the UK it is not so clear. Some people are saying…
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We don’t need roads..
The title of this blog is that classic quote from the end of the film Back to the Future. In that situation it was about jumping into a time machine which was a flying DeLorean car to travel into the future. Which is not so much what this blog post is about – but it…
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12 weeks ahead..
In our car-free-dom we use the train quite frequently. As I have written about before there are many benefits from travelling on public transport not being encased in your private car-box where you just see the world through a windscreen. The train system in the UK is good at times and less good at others.…
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Car-free walks
About ten years ago when staying in a YHA in the Lake District in the UK I noticed a poster promoting the website called Car Free Walks. Car Free Walks describes itself as “a community-driven outdoor website provid[ing] walks free of cars and free of charge. Every one of our walks can be reached using…
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Why so radical?
In many ways being car-free is not very radical. In the UK 22% of households are without a car. So with 28.2 million households that means 6.2 million car-free households in the UK. Which means that if you live in a car-free household you are not alone! For some people not having a car will…
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Car-free in Germany
We were in Germany for our holiday this summer. It is always interesting to look at the car-free-dom possibilities in other countries – to dream about what could be in the UK. The public transport, especially in the cities, from what we have seen is good, often very good – frequent, reliable, clean and not…
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Life behind glass
When you are car-free you forget about what travelling around is like for people who do not have their car-free-dom – in the UK it is suggested to be about 17 million households are car-free. Last post I wrote about my weekend ‘with van’ (we hired/rented one for a couple of days) – and it…
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How much??
I was wondering the other day how much money we avoid spending by being a car-free family versus the average car-owning family. From a bit of web-searching I found a suggestion that the average annual cost of running a car in the UK is £3,580. Another source suggested £3,552. What is quite surprising is the…
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A non-car
One thing that I particularly enjoy about car-freedom is that because we don’t ever have a car sat outside our presence at home is not clearly marked. Some research suggested that the average car in Britain spends 23 hours a day parked, of which almost three quarters it is parked outside the owner’s house. Although…
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