Shocker. Where I am, a bus pass is 135$ a month. I would break even on a thousand dollar bike after 7 months, which assuming you aren’t a winter biker, is just over a year. Except bikes last way longer than a year.
Biking to work for a lot of people is faster than busing. For me personally it’s probably not that much slower than driving. and the savings for if I drove vs biking would be even bigger because parking is stupid expensive.
Biggandwedge on
One of the best financial decisions I’ve ever made was selling my car to bike year round. The winter in Calgary is definitely less fun but I’m saving $$$ and getting healthy while I commute.
Blastoise_613 on
Without bikes, my household would go from 1 vehicle to 2 vehicles. We’re also able to not use our car for a lot of trips inside our community; like small grocery trips or visiting friends. My guess is that biking saves my.house roughly $500-700 a month
pyrethedragon on
I bought an e-scooter this year for 700$, if I put 2000km on it instead of using my truck it already paid for itself in fuel and maintenance.
I expect to hit that in 2 summers.
Jaded_Celery_451 on
In a sane world, drivers would strongly support high quality public transport and bike infrastructure simply because it gets cars off the road making roads better for drivers. Instead all we get is culture war nonsense.
As I said in the other thread – additional roads, additional bike lanes, and additional public transit cause induced demand (demand that only comes to exist once additional capacity is built). But roads are breathtakingly inefficient at actually catering to that demand, which is why no matter how many extra lanes you build, average commute time or traffic experience never improves.
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Shocker. Where I am, a bus pass is 135$ a month. I would break even on a thousand dollar bike after 7 months, which assuming you aren’t a winter biker, is just over a year. Except bikes last way longer than a year.
Biking to work for a lot of people is faster than busing. For me personally it’s probably not that much slower than driving. and the savings for if I drove vs biking would be even bigger because parking is stupid expensive.
One of the best financial decisions I’ve ever made was selling my car to bike year round. The winter in Calgary is definitely less fun but I’m saving $$$ and getting healthy while I commute.
Without bikes, my household would go from 1 vehicle to 2 vehicles. We’re also able to not use our car for a lot of trips inside our community; like small grocery trips or visiting friends. My guess is that biking saves my.house roughly $500-700 a month
I bought an e-scooter this year for 700$, if I put 2000km on it instead of using my truck it already paid for itself in fuel and maintenance.
I expect to hit that in 2 summers.
In a sane world, drivers would strongly support high quality public transport and bike infrastructure simply because it gets cars off the road making roads better for drivers. Instead all we get is culture war nonsense.
As I said in the other thread – additional roads, additional bike lanes, and additional public transit cause induced demand (demand that only comes to exist once additional capacity is built). But roads are breathtakingly inefficient at actually catering to that demand, which is why no matter how many extra lanes you build, average commute time or traffic experience never improves.