OK,
This is my final plan:
I will give up my car for all UNNECESSARY car journeys. This means if I have to get somewhere at night (the buses in my neighbourhood stop at 7.30pm) - like play rehearsals which I'm involved in at the moment I will drive. I don't particularly want to walk in dark secluded streets at night.
I will, however, get the train, bus and walk whenever else possible AND I will write to my local council to ask about why the buses don't go later into the night - that seems to me to be the most proactive thing that I can do.
Hope that meets people's approvals - and check back for my diary of no-car life!
