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Carfree roundup July 7

by Angela 07.07.2010

For you, a little news In the depressing news departments, we’re all cutting transit funding and apparently a recent survey says that Americans want it that way — we’d much rather cut transit than highway spending. But from the better news department, Portland, Oregon, is rapidly becoming the city we love to hate around my [...]

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Carseats for the Carfree

by Dorea 11.13.2009

Do you really need a carseat for your kid if you don’t have a car? Even carfree families need to drive or ride in a car sometimes, in a rental car on vacation, a cab to the airport, or carpooling with friends. Our kids are in cars enough (mostly during out-of-town trips) that it makes [...]

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Suburban Friends and the Carfree Family

by Dorea 07.29.2009

We got a really great question on the When you really need a car post. BusChick writes (somewhat edited here): “The biggest driver (pun intended) of car use for us is visiting friends. My family lives in the city, and so do most of my old friends. I, do, however, have one or two close [...]

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Carfree birth. Sort of.

by Dorea 04.30.2009

We got a request on our last post for more pregnancy news. In thinking back over the year, it does seem that my primary pregancy-as-it-pertains-to-being-carfree thoughts have to do with whining about not biking, about T delays and bad weather. Not a very good track record, is it? I confess, I had been writing a [...]

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Thanks to our friends with cars.

by Dorea 11.30.2008

Things have been a bit rough around our digs these last few weeks. I’m operating at maybe 1/2 capacity due to some serious and stubborn morning sickness. We’ve all been knocked down by a vicious case of viral bronchitis that seems to have taken the whole neighborhood by storm, and taken all of our sleep [...]

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