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Public transportation

True Life Stories of the Carfree: Leigh and her family of four, West suburbs of Chicago

by Angela 08.14.2012
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How is it August already? Our summer has been so filled with fun that we keep getting too distracted to write about. Instead, we’ve got another carfree family for inspiration for us and all of you. Leigh writes below about being a carfee family of four that relies primarily on walking and transit. If your [...]

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Barriers to biking

by Dorea 06.18.2012

When I talk to people about getting around more by bike, or any efforts to move towards less car dependence (but here the more relevant aspect is biking), I often say that even if things seem more inconvenient at first, you really can get to a place where life is more convenient, that it’s worth [...]

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True Life Stories of the Carfree: Annee, Moses, and their 5 kids, near Portland, OR

by Angela 04.27.2012
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We’re thrilled to bring you another installment of our continuing series on carfree families, this time featuring a Carfree Family who recently won an Alice Award for outstanding bicycle acheivement! If your family is carfree, we all need your inspiration, so drop us a line at carfreewithkids@gmail.com. If you already dropped us a line and didn’t hear [...]

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True Life Stories of the Carfree: Carla, Adam, Rosa (4), and Quincy (2), Seattle WA

by Angela 02.20.2012

Here is the fifth in our series about families living carfree — please let us know if you would like us to feature your family! This installments comes from an interview with Carla Saulter, who is better known as Bus Chick. I was able to talk to Carla on the phone a while back about [...]

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CFWK “rules” for strollers on transit

by Dorea 06.20.2011

In case you haven’t heard (this is old news), according to a report in the globe several weeks ago, the T will NOT be moving forward with a ban on open strollers at this time. Many thanks to the folks who let the T know this proposed ban goes too far, several of whom attended an [...]

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Stroller Ban on Buses and Possibly Trains?

by Angela 05.01.2011
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It appears that the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority is considering banning open strollers on buses, and is even considering future expansion of this ban to subway trains. This is problematic for any parent who uses public transportation, and especially so for parents and other caregivers who rely on public transportation to get around. According to [...]

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Being Carfree Means Being More Visible

by Angela 09.02.2010
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Americans spend an average of 15 hours a week in a car, at least according to this Arbitron study. That’s like two hours a day! Here at Carfree with Kids, we don’t spend any average time in a car — time in a car for us is always weird and usually involves crying children. But [...]

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Carfree Camping in Provincetown

by Angela 08.09.2010

We recently returned from a delightful trip to Provincetown on Cape Cod with the whole family, including my mom. We went there specifically for Family Week and we had a blast. And we camped. And of course the whole thing was done carfree. Here’s what we did. Angela was the one who acquired much of [...]

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How I really feel about ipods

by Dorea 07.27.2010

A couple months ago, when Angela wrote about courtesy between folks using different modes of transport, a spat broke out in our comments that got me thinking. John writes: I am very much in agreement with your statement that faster cyclists coming up behind slower traffic, either peds or other cyclists, are responsible for making [...]

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The Ride Home

by Dorea 08.19.2009

There are wonderful things about raising a kid who rides public transit. I love that H. is out in the world, interacting with all kinds of people, all the time, and not just with the people we decide and arrange for her to have contact with. It’s a pleasure to watch her skills at navigating [...]

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