Check out our new cart. Well, it's not exactly ours, but we're sharing it. Rather than buy a car, we've joined a car co-op (which operate in over 600 cities around the world). If you've never heard of one, a car co-op is essentially a fleet of cars owned by a cooperative that are placed all over town (in this case usually at train stations) for members to rent. Like most car co-ops, Greenwheels encourages the use of public transit; since we have train discount cards, we get a discounted monthly fee of $16.25 (which also covers insurance and gas). Then we pay $3.25/hour plus $0.40/mile. Doing some quick math, you can tell it's not a great deal if we want to go on a day trip. However, it comes in mighty handy picking up bulky items from the store and transporting luggage to/from the train station. On our last trip to France, our train was so early in the morning that there was no hourly rate so we paid just $0.28 to get our packs to the station, a fraction of what it costs to rent a luggage cart at the airport. Of course, we'll remember next time not to be so cocky, since we almost missed our train because it took longer to drive than we expected.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Our $0.28 Luggage Cart...
Check out our new cart. Well, it's not exactly ours, but we're sharing it. Rather than buy a car, we've joined a car co-op (which operate in over 600 cities around the world). If you've never heard of one, a car co-op is essentially a fleet of cars owned by a cooperative that are placed all over town (in this case usually at train stations) for members to rent. Like most car co-ops, Greenwheels encourages the use of public transit; since we have train discount cards, we get a discounted monthly fee of $16.25 (which also covers insurance and gas). Then we pay $3.25/hour plus $0.40/mile. Doing some quick math, you can tell it's not a great deal if we want to go on a day trip. However, it comes in mighty handy picking up bulky items from the store and transporting luggage to/from the train station. On our last trip to France, our train was so early in the morning that there was no hourly rate so we paid just $0.28 to get our packs to the station, a fraction of what it costs to rent a luggage cart at the airport. Of course, we'll remember next time not to be so cocky, since we almost missed our train because it took longer to drive than we expected.
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