I've been mulling getting rid of my SO's car. I told myself we would last September...
Well it's still here.
Reasons we can be a 1 car family:
There is only 2 of us and a dog.
We live 4 blocks from a bus route that is a zero transfer route to my work, two of the three grocery stores we regularly frequent, a major transit station, and a mall.
Bus pass is subsidized for me, through my work, with unlimited rides, pretax, for $25 a month
SOs car is a POS that is only used to get to work or single person errands since it was totaled out and two doors don't open.
I am biking distance from my work.
SO's work is 1.5 miles from my work. Either of us could easily walk or bike to the other person's work if we need the car.
We are walking distance from the library.
We are walking distance from the regular vet.
Our best friends are within biking distance and have provided emergency transport in the past.
My parents are retired, within (long) biking distance and have provided transport in the past.
Uber/Lyft are a thing
Reasons we haven't:
It's SO's car we would get rid of. It isn't in my control to get rid of it without buy in.
My car is the one we would keep. But SO is the one who is mostly restricted to driving for work due to on-call with quick response times, irregular working hours, a bad neighborhood for walking/biking at night-time hours, and a medical condition that would make a bike commute highly unpleasant. I don't trust SO to keep my car clean to my standards or not get in an accident. See, I use my, not our, but its the first car I bought (while single and it was new);its only 3.5 years old, and I'm still enamored, and I don't think I will be able to justify buying a new car again.
Our work schedule's don't match up and I'd hate to have to run all the errands on our 1 day a week together.
Fear-broke my ankle last year, there were 3 months were if I couldn't drive I was reliant on others. Hated that feeling.
Laziness.
SOs car only costs us ~90 a month; is +$65 really worth the inconvenience?
Any way long way of saying I'm in on trying to do zero car miles for just me. experiment, not moral imperative though.