Goodbye Car

Hello and welcome to my blog. For my online assessment I have set myself a challenge to give up my car. Yes, completely give up my car for two weeks, or as long as I last. This may seem like a pretty easy challenge to some of you, but trust me, for me it’s not. I love driving and am one of those people who drives everywhere, yes literally everywhere.

I started learning to drive when I was 17 and passed 2nd time, all the best drivers pass 2nd time. Since passing my test over 3 years ago, I have only been without my car once and I still remember how hard that was.

It was August last year; a few weeks before moving to University when I was involved in four car pile up on the M20. The accident wasn’t my fault and was unavoidable; fortunately nobody was seriously injured, except my car. When the Police and Highway guys turned up at the scene I was told they would be towing my car away and to collect my belongings out of it as I would never see it again! This was a very traumatic time for me. Yes the accident was horrible, but worst was seeing all the money I had saved and spent on that car gone in minutes and I now had no car and the prospect off travelling to University, back and forth on public transport.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not against public transport, I feel why use if you can drive. My insurance covered the accident, but I was faced with around a 2 week wait until my cheque for the write off arrived. They say having a car gives you freedom and yes they are right. I forgot what it was like running to the bus stop, paying out taxi fares and begging my parents for a lift.

So why do it again? The news has been filled with car related stories lately such as the strikes in Scotland and petrol shortages as well as the black box recorders, so I thought I would give up my car and see it goes using this blog, as well as some of my opinions on other driving related issues.

Now I’ve got walking shoes on and bus change in hand and I’m set to go.