Living without the motor
CAR-free in the capital
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Going car free
After 30 years of almost continuous car ownership (a couple of months between cars around 20 years ago), my Toyota finally gave up the ghost in the first week of January on the M5. We’d been debating about getting rid of the vehicle for some time – our annual mileage is low (3-4,000); we use…
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stats and numbers
Although there are more than 2.5 million cars registered in London, the capital is one of the easiest places to go car free, and there are an awful lot of households that either have no choice but to get by without a motor, and what seems like an increasing number of people who are deciding…
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cold, hard cash
The basics – the savings made by NOT having the car. As I work through the year I’ll tot up additional costs (car hire, cabs, trains etc) and see how that compares to what I would have paid had I been driving in my own vehicle. Even putting depreciation to one side, there are significant…
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