Quote:
Originally Posted by mithrandir
Providing all you want to take is yourself, can travel off-peak and you have a Senior's Card, it's fine. Once you have to take some gear it's not practical. It's only supposed to be "a few years" until I have a train station 300m from my front door, and I'll have a Senior's Card too.
So you suggest we all have a micro car for day to day and a SUV for when you want take stuff that won't fit in the car?
|
No do your costing/usage sums and just get rid of the SUV
Any gear I need to transport I can get in a small car, even my lightbridge 16" can be carried in my Fiesta. If its too big for thatI can get a carrier to move it. One of costs beat the depreciation and maintenance of a big car.
Incidentally I have a station wagon and trailer that I can use if necessary. Fully depreciated. maintenance, insurance and rego is the killer at about $2000 (50c/KM for the use it gets)
The 617X bus service is 300 metres from my door.The nearest railway station will be 2KMs. As an example I needed to pick up some gear from the QVB. I left home at 10:20, got to the QVB at 11:30 did my shopping caught the bus back at 11:57 and was home at 13:10. I can't beat that by car at any time. The best car/train time is 45mins (normally about 60 mins) to Artarmon train to city 20 mins (with waiting time)
Barry