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Car Free with Kids: Introducing our new Xtracycle!
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Introducing our new Xtracycle! While Dorea is in Woods Hole. H and I are up in Boston, holding down the fort, and getting a lot of time together to use our new Xtracycle. FYI, all of the credit for researching and acquiring the Xtracycle goes to Dorea. We have the Free Radical. Mounted on a hybrid Trek with disk brakes and a Peapod. For H on the back. I'm going to let Dorea make a post about all of the gear, because she's the gearhead - I'm just riding the thing. To the bike (OK,...
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Car Free with Kids: Costs of Car Ownership, Part II
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Costs of Car Ownership, Part II. In addition to the costs in time and money. There are other, less quantifiable costs of car ownership. These may be personal costs or costs to society at large. Mental and Emotional Costs. Social and Environmental Costs. The obvious cost to all of us is the carbon emissions of a car. An average car emits 77 pounds of hydrocarbons per year. There is also the cost of sprawl. Car use certainly has the potential of distancing us from our local co...
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Car Free with Kids: How we gave up our car
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Friday, July 18, 2008. How we gave up our car. Labels: benefits of being car free. February 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). We're the VC's, two mathematicians, an unemployed toddler (H. born 6/06), and baby R. (born 5/09). We live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and rely on bikes, public transit and our feet for transportation. Want to know more? Read a little about us. And about how we became car free. This is our bike:. Here's more info about. And our custom two-kid seat. Perks of...
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Car Free with Kids: Kidical Mass North Cambridge
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Kidical Mass North Cambridge. We're leading a Kidical Mass ride in North Cambridge this summer! The will be on July 18th at 10am, starting and ending in Rev. Williams park (corner of Cedar and Dudley). This will be a 3-mile ride on roads and bikepaths for parents and kids. Take a look at the route. The ride will start with some safety education, followed by the ride (no one left behind! Posted by Angela V-C. June 16, 2010 at 9:58 PM. June 17, 2010 at 12:44 PM. What a great idea!
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Car Free with Kids: The evening scramble
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Rush from work to daycare and from daycare to home; cook dinner, eat dinner, put child(ren) to bed - do you recognize this scramble? And can you do it eating food that is cheap, homemade, and healthy? We have three main strategies. We often start meals the morning or night before so they are half-made when we hit our nighttime rush. This takes advanced planning, and we almost never arrive home in the evening without knowing what's for dinner. Posted by Angela V-C. March 25, 200...
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Car Free with Kids: Costs of car ownership, part I
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Costs of car ownership, part I. Those of us who go carfree or car-light often do so because of the high costs of car ownership. So I thought it would be a good idea to spend a some time detailing those costs, which look to me like they come in four broad categories: monetary costs, time costs, mental/emotional costs, and social and environmental costs. Car loan payments, lease payments, or one-time cost of purchasing a used car. And that's before you factor in your car loan!
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Car Free with Kids: Springtime in the Bike Lane
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Friday, March 12, 2010. Springtime in the Bike Lane. Note also that the Cambridge cops decide it's time to ticket again. I've seen two traps set up this week. Stop at lights everyone and ride safe. They will ticket you, and that sure can ruin a nice day. Labels: benefits of being car free. Costs of being car free. Do they also ticket the drivers for the same offenses? That is my complaint, cyclists are easy targets for tickets compared to drivers. March 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM. April 12, 2010 at 1:35 PM.
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Car Free with Kids: Bay State Bike Week!
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Thursday, May 20, 2010. Bay State Bike Week! We're a bit late to the party, but it's Bike Week. I'll be joining the bicycle convoy. Through Alewife tomorrow morning at 7:40 am (If you're in the greater Boston area, there's probably a convoy going through your neighborhood! And on Saturday, we're planning to join the Cambridge Public Art Bicycle Tour. Keep an eye out for us and say "Hi! I'll be riding this:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Read a little about us. And about how we became car free.
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Car Free with Kids: Surprising Benefits from Being Car Free
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Monday, July 21, 2008. Surprising Benefits from Being Car Free. One surprising benefit of being car free has been the reduction of choice in our lives. This might seem counter intuitive in a world in which more choices are assumed to make us happier. But making choices takes a lot of time and energy. But of course giving up choice is not always easy and it doesn't automatically make you happier. We have given up some things that were important to us in order to live without a car. Though we were sad.
