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I put my car in storage, it was doable but it wouldn't have been without uber, going anywhere via transit would've involved at least one twenty minute transfer.
by hikawaii 4y ago
I put my car in storage, it was doable but it wouldn't have been without uber, going anywhere via transit would've involved at least one twenty minute transfer.
I mostly just hoofed it everywhere, but it did limit my access substantially.
Meanwhile, unless it's very cold or I'm going to a different city I have much less of a need for a car in my more rural locale.
- reaperducer 4y agoI put my car in storage, it was doable but it wouldn't have been without uber Why not? I lived in Seattle for years without a car, before Uber was even invented. Get an Orca card, and a ZipCar subscription for once-a-month trips. Problem solved.
- hikawaii 4y agoHaving to take any transfer at all adds fifteen minutes to a trip, scheduling issues and a life pattern that routinely had me in Fremont, Bellevue, etc. Went to SoDo a fair bit and that was always an extreme chore despite the short distance. Walking .8 to whole foods and back with a weeks worth of groceries wasn't unlivable or anything, but I had to pay 50% more for food to even get that close. Today, I walk like a quarter mile for groceries basically whenever I'd like and don't have to deal with city traffic. The point is not Seattle bad or transit bad, the point is that despite a design with many more "car centric" elements, I have an easier time walking and biking here than I did there - so you can't lay all urban problems at the feet of cars and assume that pro density urbanism magically fixes them.