It Works: Superglue Fix on Broken Headphone Jack

Broken 3.55mm headphone jack

It was a last resort, but the superglue trick to remove a broken, 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPad socket worked. Before: audio only worked on Bluetooth headphones. After: sound is coming out of the iPad speaker, we can plug in headphones, as well as having the Bluetooth option. Naturally, I was reluctant to start … Read more

Missing Miles Mystery: Much Odo About Nothing?

Entrance to Surrey Central Skytrain station

A few months ago I wrote about how I had found an odd discrepancy on my Modo invoice where I was undercharged for a trip I made in a Toyota Corolla hatchback at Central Surrey SkyTrain station. I don’t usually scrutinise my Modo invoices in great depth, but since I was making a comparison of … Read more

New Modo pricing, to “accelerate” EV use, starts tomorrow

Starting tomorrow (1st January 2025), Modo members will have to pay a little more to drive an ICE car rather than an EV. Under changes to Modo’s “Innovation Fee”, announced by new CEO Sandra Philips at the beginning of this month, gas-powered or hybrid cars will incur a fee of $3 per trip, while the … Read more

Modo Trip Throws Up Missing Miles Mystery

Surrey Central Modo Toyota Corolla hatchback

Weird. That was my first thought when I looked at my most recent Modo invoice. I thought the calculations in my last blog post comparing different modes of travel between Vancouver and Langley were as thorough as I could get.  I even created my own trip calculator in a spreadsheet because the official trip calculator … Read more

In a battle between car versus transit “both” could be best option for saving time and money

Modo car in car share parking space at UBC turf

Getting around Vancouver without a car is getting easier these days for our family of four. We have our car share memberships – Modo and Evo – to fall back on, but generally our lifestyles remain happily car lite. We have good access to the city’s network of cycleways and we live near a couple … Read more

Car sharing 101

Kid with ski poles raised beside a Modo shared car

Consider this: a privately owned car can cost at least $10,000 a year, yet, for 95% of the time, it sits idle doing nothing, just slowly losing its value each and every day. Car sharing means you have use of a fleet of cars, without the responsibilities that go along with owning a car – … Read more