As mentioned in my first post, I’m going to try laying up the car for November and use rapid transit plus car sharing to get around to clients.

As November 1 draws nearer, I’m often comparing how each day goes and how I would have done the same without a car. What will I miss? What won’t I miss?

I’ll miss the obvious flexibility of being able to jump in the car anytime, but I won’t miss this:

Queued for the ramp signals, SH16 to SH1 northbound link, 4:30pm Thursday October 15.
After the signals it was also stop-start traffic until the Bridge.

I’m wondering how I’m going to adjust to loss of flexibility of being able to jump in the car to get parts, return faulty items to suppliers and to hop between jobs. I think I’ll just have to plan trips better and further in advance. This will probably help with efficiency, allocating set days of the week to do ‘courier’ work with the hire car instead of making more trips transporting less equipment around per trip.Hopefully it’ll get me into good planning habits too.

car · change · cityhop · efficiency · motorway · planning · traffic