00:02Could you get around your city without a car?
00:05Meet Callum. He's 26, works in Brisbane as a lawyer
00:10and has recently gone carless.
00:13I had a car, it was getting to be more expensive to service it,
00:18pay rego everything and the actual value of the car itself.
00:21Fuel was obviously getting more expensive.
00:23But the switch has not been without challenges.
00:26When it's raining you kind of have to be prepared,
00:28make sure you have an umbrella with you.
00:30Other than that, just getting to places
00:31that aren't really serviced by public transport.
00:35The 23-year-old part-time marketing professional Edie Morris-Newell,
00:39who's been car-free for most of her adult life,
00:42she's only recently decided to purchase one.
00:45It's just more about the spontaneity that having a car gave me,
00:48in terms of being able to go to the beach,
00:50being able to go to friends' houses, rego and insurance.
00:54It's all getting up there.
00:55It does make you question whether it's worth it.
00:58A recent University of Queensland study found that most people
01:02reduced their reliance on cars after going carless for a short time.
01:07In the past, living car-free was associated with poverty,
01:11or being carless was associated with poverty,
01:13whereas now it's almost a privilege.
01:16I think the future is car-free.
01:17So, let's put it to the test.
01:20We'll give biking, the bus and walking to work a go.
01:25So, the walk did take the longest amount of time.
01:28The bus was 50 cents, that was a bonus,
01:31but it was only a minute quicker than the walk,
01:34and the bike saved me about eight minutes,
01:36but I did run into some mechanical issues.
01:40So, it is possible to go carless,
01:43but the real question is, is it the future?
01:45I'm going to get back to the patient with a Russian video.
01:46We'll be back.
01:46It's our first week.
01:46We'll be back.
01:46We'll be back.
01:48We'll be back.
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