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New York Post: LA resident lives 19 years without a car

The New York Post lifestyle piece lays out how one Los Angeles resident skipped car ownership for nineteen years and what the habit saved; the sidewalk remains undefeated.

On air: Chip Darnell and Hank Ledger on Scoreboard Saturday
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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTime for a lifestyle win. The New York Post has a writer who has lived in Los Angeles nineteen years without a car.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIn Los Angeles.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorEveryone told this person, you have to have a car. And the answer was, nope. Nineteen years of nope!

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe walked.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorShe learned secrets, Hank! The Post is selling them as secrets, plus how much she saved.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSecret one: shoes. Secret two: the other shoe.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSecret three, the bus has a schedule. Somebody just writes it down and hands it over. Free!

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA schedule. Classified, I assume. Handed over in a parking garage.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThink of it. No gas, no insurance, no parking ticket, no sobbing at a repair shop. Her wallet is thrilled.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNineteen years of savings and the Post still had to ask her to explain it.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWait, how do you get to work, Hank?

  12. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBus. Same one. Nineteen years. Nobody ever called me a lifestyle feature.

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