i killed my cable...
...now I am thinking about killing my car. From Krugman:
Sick transit and all that
The Times reports that ridership on mass transit is surging thanks to high gasoline prices. Good.
But … as of 2005, only 4.7 percent of American workers took mass transit to work. So even a 10% surge in mass transit ridership would take only around half a percent of drivers off the road.
The point isn’t that nothing can be done — it’s just that serious reductions in driving would require a lot of long-term rearrangement of the way we live. It will come — but not quickly.
The key for me is that I'm self employed and am in the 3.6 percent that works from home or the nearest wifi-enabled coffee shop. (I need an easily accessible power outlet too, which actually turns out to be more of a pain than wifi.) But I don't have to drive unless I want to.
two years ago
I gave up having a car two years ago. My quality of life went up a small amount, but on the whole it wasn't a big deal either way ('cept that I love my bike so). I'd say there have been half a dozen times when a car would have been significantly more convenient. I live in two cities that were built before cars though, so it is much easier.
I vote for ditching your car. The righteousness feels pretty good.
sweet righteousness!
i think the thing is that I already live a non-car-centric lifestyle, so killing the car is kind of statementy.
I lived without a ride until I moved to LA, which seems kind o hard on the carless. How will I get my haul from Whole Foods or the farmer's market home without a car?
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