Saving Money

I've compiled another chart to track the money I save each month by not taking public transport. Here in Toronto it costs $5.50 CAD round trip each day to take the bus or train - buying a metro pass doesn't save me anything since I would have to use it every work day plus the occasional weekend to make it worthwhile. I'll start another post (soon) to list all of the costs involved in bike ownership to give everyone a real world idea of the total savings.

Key

Blue bar represents the potential savings if I avoid using public transport 100% of the available commuting days

Red bar represents the actual savings based on my success rate for the given month (see My Commuting Record 2010)

My Commuting Record 2010

In order to track my success rate as I try to commit to a year round cycle of commuting to work by bike, I've put together this graph. Each month starts at 100% - the idea being that maintaining a high percentage of success is better then trying to reach some unattainable goal. Hopefully this will be a motivating exercise!



Key
Blue bar represents the number of available commuting days I didn't ride for each month
Red bar is the number of days in the month
Yellow bar indicates the number of non-commuting days (weekends, holidays etc)
Green bar indicates my success rate as a percentage of the available commuting days divided by the number of days actually ridden