Faced with another mammoth repair bill ($1290), we have decided to ditch the car.
Well, at least trial it for 4 weeks...
We believe it is possible, without there being any major impact on our quality of life. And we believe it would be more affordable.
We will:
- Walk and cycle more than we all already do
- Take public transport more than we currently do
- Take taxis and hire cars, where a vehicle is necessary (for business and pleasure)
- Simply not travel as much
- Slow down a bit
We will have to plan ahead a bit more; booking taxis, cars and planning trips and major shopping to coincide with use of a vehicle.
However, in our favour:
- I walk to the station and catch the train to work every day and don’t use a car
- My wife’s employment is mostly near public transport (but not always so)
- Brisbane remains reasonably well served with public transport
- Though we chose to live where we do because of the train line, perhaps more fortuitously we live near the airport and so have 3 or 4 car hire businesses within 5 minutes walk
- The kids mostly walk and cycle to school
There will be a few tricky things. Rugby training and away games will cause some thorny problems. Also visiting friends who don’t happen to live near public transport, will be hard... and time consuming I suspect.
This blog will follow our success… or otherwise...
