This week I'm car free… my father's over touring south-NZ while I hold the fort here.

One thing I'm learning… while I have my inbound trip more-or-less down pat, the outbound trip needs work. Today I left home about 06:30… wandered up to the stop in Kaloma Road and caught the 382… that dropped me off near Lang Park, and I walked from there to Park Road, Milton where my work is.

Easy.

This evening, I tried to do the reverse… got to the stop: it was going to be 20~30 minutes until the 382 coming home. I hate standing around waiting for public transport. So plenty of time to walk up to the next stop surely…? I'll bet it stops a bit further up the road.

Narrator: it doesn't stop anywhere else on Given Terrace. The point just near Caxton street is the only place.

Suffice to say, ended up walking to the base of the hill at Bardon… waited for the 61 and got that to Ashgrove. Then I wandered to the rendezvous point for the 380. By this time it was nearly 18:00.

There was *supposed* to be a 380 at 18:03… that time came and went with no sign of it. It was 18:19 before I was on that 380.

Bloody exhausted… but a little wiser I think.

#PublicTransport #CarFree

I have not purchased motor vehicle fuel since August 2020. That's over 67 months.

If I drove 1,000 miles a month in a car that got 25 mpg, I'd have burned through 2,680 gallons of gasoline in that time.

At today's local price of about $4/gal, that's $10,720 USD I've saved just in gasoline alone.

And that doesn't even begin to count registration and insurance fees or maintenance and repair costs.

#carfree #bicycle #ebike #BikeTooter #FediBike #BanCars #IranWar

When is #EarthDay? #NYC goes #CarFree to celebrate

by Amethyst Martinez, April 9, 2026

Excerpt: "Earth Day is on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

"Car-free Earth Day takes place the following weekend on Saturday, April 25.

"#NewYorkCity shuts down streets across all five boroughs, allowing residents to #walk and #bike while taking advantage of a wide range of events hosted by the Department of Transportation.

"The tradition, which started in 2016, has become a fan-favorite across the city.

" 'Car-Free Earth Day has expanded to locations throughout the five boroughs – connecting #OpenStreets, #plazas, and accessing over 1,000 miles of NYC's #BikeNetwork,' the website says.'

[...]

"On the city's car-free day, public #art installations, musical performances, arts and #crafts and #workshops will all take place."

Learn more [includes list of street closures]:
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/earth-day-nyc-goes-car-202825568.html

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #BikeTooter #NYCEvents #CarFreeStreets

I've sworn to never use cars, except in life-threatening emergencies.

One exception I had to make was for the birth of my child: we had to borrow a car. We could anticipate when Maggie would go into labor, but we could not show up at the hospital early. There is a bus stop at the hospital, we could have used public transit if we didn't have to wait until it was an (artificial) emergency.

Do other places have solutions for #carfree births? (Home birth was too risky for us.)

#childbirth

Pssst… Do you car?

#autofrei #berlinautofrei #carfree