I don’t know about you but, since the advent of covid and working from home, I have rarely used my car.
This is helped by the fact I have 2 supermarkets and a high street within a 5 minute walk, a pretty good local bus service and a great city-bike scheme. Indeed the most use the car had in recent years was driving my bike to the starting point of a ride, making it both an expensive bike taxi and not very ecological mode of transport.
Whilst my rational self knew I didn’t really need a car I very much doubt I would have been brave or motivated enough to voluntarily give up the independence of my own vehicle. Or, if I had, it would have had little to do with being ecologically minded and mostly because yet another piece had dropped off my old rust bucket making it unusable.
On returning from our yearlong cycling adventure however it was a time for decisions…..buy a new car each, share one or go cold turkey with none?
Cycling in a skirt 