Gas prices keep climbing.
Ever tried to buy a car in
the last few months or so?
Brutal those prices continue to go up.
Inflation in the United States,
the highest we've seen in decades.
People everywhere are looking
for ways to cut costs,
but some of these costs that we have to are.
You are some of these costs
that we see every day.
Well, they have to be essential, right?
Yeah, that's right.
So that got us thinking.
How necessary is a car in our lives,
especially if we live in Idaho?
Can someone accustomed to driving all
the time actually live without one?
Yeah, can they do it long
term in the city of Boise are?
Country Bartlein found a gal who
ditched her car for a week and
documented her experience for us.
I drive every
day. I want to say whether
it's like 3 minutes to my
workout or 20 minutes to
Meridian. I drive a lot.
So what's your plan?
I guess if you have to go somewhere.
I mean you have options.
You could bike bus, walk, what do you?
What do you thinking right now?
Going into it, I'm probably
gonna just go on like a
lot of runs and walks.
Do you think you'll try some public
transportation like Valley Regional
Transit or the city bus system?
What are your thoughts on that
I might have? I don't even
know what that looks like here.
That will be a shock to me.
Hello, good morning,
it's day one without a car.
I am leaving the House in about
10 minutes to go to my workout
so it's maps that it will take me one hour.
To get there. I think we can beat that.
Let's find out Sophia quickly found
her stride and that wasn't that
bad like it did take about an hour,
but I got like some phone calls done.
Yeah no, I would do that again.
That was good.
Now I'm walking home it's a mile and a half,
so not too bad.
It's like 15 minutes left of it and
I'm just using the green belt.
Unexpected weather gave a whole
new layer to the challenge.
It's Day 2 right now I'm
walking to my workout,
not running today and then rain boots.
I got an umbrella.
Because it's pouring rain out,
I walked back to my place.
It would stop raining and snowing.
I might go on a run to campus.
To be determined
the Boise say it was 1.6 miles of a
walk from where I live here and I have
to go back home another 1.6 miles.
The miles soon caught up and wore her down.
My neighbors drove me.
Thanks guys anytime.
Miles both days, we'll see how
many miles I walk tomorrow.
Wait home from my workout is still
cold for the second day in a row.
Sofia had to hitch a ride.
I'm going to Uber right now because
I have to go all the way by
Milwaukee like by that target area.
Hitching
a ride proved to be its own adventure.
Don't know it. I don't know maybe.
That had to be the weirdest Uber of my life.
He was singing. He's cracking jokes.
Just an experience by now,
she decided it's time to try the bus.
The bus stations are really
hard to see what routes.
They go on into track and
like actually map out where
you're going. It's just a big
ordeal so I'm not sure if
people actually even use buses
here to commute in that way,
which take hours out of your day.
They don't take card.
I would take this again,
but she didn't, so I ran
to my workout, which was
a mile again and I walked back
and I walked another like .2 miles
to go vote.
Just like she started Sophia Boots
1 foot in front of the other 15
minutes already be downtown to go
work in the office. It didn't
last long. They walked like.
20 minutes I'm gonna have my
neighbor pick me up. Oh yeah,
so I had my neighbor pick me up again
and I'm on my way home for the night.
Can Uber this morning to
the airport and I'm off?
I didn't expect like how, how hard it
is on your body to walk like
everywhere. It's was really tiring.
You took the bus. I'm glad you did it.
What was that experience like?
You mentioned you don't know how people
do that because it felt very inefficient.
Yeah, it takes such a long time and
the buses can be late and it just
would throw your whole day off.
It literally would take
hours to get somewhere.
That's like a 1520 minute drive away.
Depending on where you're going.
Was it difficult to navigate a city like
Boise that clearly is made for cars?
I feel like it kind of changed my
opinion of that because we have so
many like really good walkway areas.
If you're going anywhere around the
downtown or like Park Center area or.
Like Broadway, those main streets,
it's so accessible it's more
difficult if you're going somewhere
more like Milwaukee from from there,
that's a lot more difficult
just by trying this.
Do you feel that there's going
to be any changes to your life?
Something that you maybe
learned that maybe you're going
to implement going forward?
Yeah, I think I'm probably going to just
walk to my workout most of the time
because one mile is actually not that
bad of a walk or run in the morning.