Kudos on being car-free. As you say, it means tough decisions in the US. I don't know if I qualify as car-lite. I haven't driven my car to work for well over a year except for one day last month when my bike had a major meltdown (pedal stripped). I do put more miles on my bike per year than on my car, by a fair margin, but I do drive my car several days of the week, to take kids to various things in the evening. We might have made it to taekwon do but the studio moved from 3.5 miles away to 9 miles away, and while that wouldn't bother me too much, my 10-year-old is probably not yet up to riding 9 miles, doing an hour of TKD, then riding back and still working in homework and getting to bed on time.
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I don't know if I qualify as car-lite. I haven't driven my car to work for well over a year except for one day last month when my bike had a major meltdown (pedal stripped). I do put more miles on my bike per year than on my car, by a fair margin, but I do drive my car several days of the week, to take kids to various things in the evening. We might have made it to taekwon do but the studio moved from 3.5 miles away to 9 miles away, and while that wouldn't bother me too much, my 10-year-old is probably not yet up to riding 9 miles, doing an hour of TKD, then riding back and still working in homework and getting to bed on time.