I’ve now put my money where my mouth is and shelled out the $210 for the Monthly Discovery Pass for November.

That’s $10.00 a day for the month (21 weekdays in November).

Add about four hours of Cityhop car use a month, and that averages out to $13.00 a day.

I’ve figured owning and operating the car amounts to $14.88 per weekday. (or $11.03 without capital costs of $5000 every five years)

Annoyingly, because I will still have the car, even though it’s not going anywhere, it’s still going to cost $7.56 per day during November in registration, depreciation, and insurance.

So, if this works out, I’ve got a pretty good incentive to sell my car. This is probably not a good moment to admit I may be slightly emotionally attached to my car

car · cityhop · monthly discovery pass · running costs

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.

(more…)

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