![]() The city could help by improving bike infrastructure and enforcing laws against dangerous driving. It would help to promote low emission low-cost car-free life styles if we supported downtown businesses and services that are easily accessible by walking, bike, transit, and if folks living near one of the many good bus lines gave it a try – public transit in RI is often much better than non-users think it is. ![]() ![]() Still, over the decades we saved much $$ and reduced our environmental impact compared to most professional couples who have 2 (or more) vehicles. What an excellent series! My wife and I are relatively polluters compared with this couple as we only gave up one of our two cars when we got married. She’s been happy to see routes along North Main Street and others get better since she moved to the city, but she said it still has a long way to go. She said she would also like to see improvements in Providence for bicyclers. After shifting from the movie-of-the-week format, the show aired eight seasons. medical examiner investigated crimes, often delving into contemporary social issues. was a hit out of the gate, as the relentless and often irascible L.A. Ma testified during the last session of the General Assembly for more funding to sustain and improve RIPTA so more people might be enticed to join her in a car-free life. Launched as part of the NBC Mystery Wheel Jack Klugman’s QUINCY M.E. So why don’t we just not spend 20 grand?’” “Then 20% was like, ‘Hey, the financial benefits are really great, too. Eighty percent like, ‘Hey, let’s do this because it’s just better ,’” she said. But part of the benefit of living without one, she said, is the carbon footprint (or lack of one) she now has because of it. Ma said she knows she’s in a privileged place because if she needed to have a car, she could afford one. She has enjoyed figuring out how to pack their bikes in the most efficient way when they go to the grocery store and exploring new Rhode Island destinations on unfamiliar RIPTA lines. “We’re able to kind of reorganize our life, and it hasn’t been a big deal for us,” she said. A trip to Boston, where Ma works as the program manager for Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Medicare team, though, is always taken on the commuter rail.Īlthough occasionally Ma thinks about how having a car would be easier to do things like check off errands all in one go, she said, they have enjoyed hacking their way through their new situation. For example, to visit family in Quincy, Mass., they will rent a vehicle because there isn’t a transit line that will get them there. “As a last resort,” Ma said, she and her husband will rent a Zipcar, but that’s only for trips that are nearly impossible without a car. “We are very much a multimodal household,” Ma said. The couple mostly get around on their bikes and supplement with service from the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority when the weather is bad. “I would rather walk or bike than drive.” “It’s been great not having one,” Ma recently said, more than six months into the experiment. They could ditch the car and assess how a vehicle-free life went. But then Ma had a thought: “We don’t even need to replace the car.” The cost of the car’s repairs were such that they would have been better off replacing the vehicle instead, which probably would have been a $25,000 cost.
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