Frederick says Anne can get alone even without one of these.
By Micheline Maynard
Our reader Anne in Ann Arbor has asked for advice on whether to keep her 1998 Honda Civic or go car free. Frederick Ollinger in San Diego says she can pull the plug, and tells her how.
Dear Anne,
You access to a car will impact your life decisions and make you more or less car dependent.
For example, you say that your suburb is car dependent. How did this happen? This could only occur if the developers and residents all decided that they were going to have access to a car.
If, on the other hand, at the beginning of this decision making process, you did not have a car, you would have made different decisions.
For example, when my wife and I moved from pedestrian Philly to “car dependent” San Diego, every one “knew” that we needed a car. Five years later we live not only without a car, but without a Zipcar.
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