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My SO and I each have our own car, but his never gets used, and we're selling it. He bikes everywhere he needs to go, and I drive us places when two of us need to get somewhere out of bicycle range. My bike is currently in need of repairs, and so I haven't been riding it much lately, not to mention it's the worst season to ride a bike around my college town, as the streets are full of leaf debris. Up until the weather turned, I was riding my bicycle, walking, and riding the bus more than driving my car. I expect that will be the case again once they clean up the bike lanes and I get my bike repaired.
Quite frankly, we've saved a lot of money in gas and insurance by going down to one car and only driving when it's impossible to bicycle/walk/take the bus there. Our town is fairly compact, and there are not many places that are out of reach by bicycle/bus/foot. Even downtown, from our house, is only a half an hour walk away, a 10-minute bicycle ride, or a 5-minute bus ride. The bus stop is right in front of our house. There is a grocery store 2 blocks to the north of us that is easily reachable on foot. Another grocery store--this one a "one-stop shopping" sort of place--is half a mile away on foot, about a 10-minute walk. The coffee shop is a 10-minute walk away, and my bank is right around the corner from the coffee shop. The university campus (an important location, as it's where my SO spends most of his time) is only 10 minutes away on foot, 3 minutes away by bicycle, and about the same by bus--the bus that stops in front of our house goes by campus on its way to downtown. Going the other way, the bus goes by several grocery stores before finally arriving at the hospital and coming back towards our house, headed for campus. So most important locations in my town are easily reachable. It's one of the things I love about where I live.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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