AZ Daily Star concludes its bus experiment, starts the bike experiment
Today was AZ Daily Star reporter Josh Brodesky’s first day of his car-free week, which he is blogging about on Andrea Kelly’s “Gridlocked” blog. I’m wishing him luck! I find that for the ordinary things I do in life, my bike suits me fine and I could get around without having a car at all — in fact, before I started my own law practice I lived car-free for over a year with few regrets. I used a Bob trailer for my groceries and rented a car for out-of-town trips. (If you don’t know this already, renting a car is actually quite inexpensive if you do it properly.)
Now that I have my own practice I find the car to be more important, but thankfully it sits idle for weeks at a time. I’ve chosen a law office that is in walking distance to all four of Tucson’s courthouses and the post office. Lauren, my assistant, also does most of our errands by bike. The only time she balks is when I ask her to get police reports from the Sheriff’s Department, which is a long ways away on dangerous roads.
I should think being a newspaper reporter would be even more difficult to do without a car.
-Erik Ryberg
August 19th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Whose burden is this thing called the automobile?
Individuals love cars like pretty much nothing
else, but many corporate entities have benefited
from individuals owning cars…it’s a two way street.
So why can’t the newspapers make vehicles available
to reporters who need to go specific places? It is a
form of vehicle sharing and goes toward the direction
we need to go…more people requiring a fewer number of
cars. This is something that needs to be acknowledged
across the entire broad spectrum.