Posted on 02/13/2015 1:12:20 PM PST by nascarnation
From “Commuting in America 2013″ via AASHTO. Lots of growth in private transportation, but public transit, telecommuting and walking to work have stayed fairly flat. Despite prognostications of a newly urbanized populace that’s hungry for public transportation, the statistics seem to tell a different story.
Generation Y/Millenials don’t want cars, freedom to avoid buying health insurance, or 40 hour work weeks.
Or so I’ve been told.
I guess they’ll just have to outlaw personal cars.
Except for government workers of course.
Willie Green was wrong?
Another leftist prediction gone bad.
What’s their batting average so far?
.000?
And it is no surprise that folk don’t want mass transit in today’s secular and anti-Christian world. the secularists and atheists are afraid that using mass transit is just a way to get them to a church service.
That percentage sounds high.
Yeah. What happened to him?
He had it out with JimRob and never posted again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2607597/posts
It will come to that — “for the children”
Just think about all the money poured down the drain in the form of bike lanes, etc...to ‘nudge’ the sheeple to not drive their cars. Not only is it immoral...turns out the money was completely wasted anyway.
Nice link.
Which is why we need to Mandate that ALL Public Employees use Public Transportation to and from their respective work places.
Bike lanes....ugh. Not only do they take up half the darned street, I live in a place where it’s freaking winter more than half the year!
Well riding a bike to work would be nice, but I haven’t seen bare pavement since November, as it’s been covered in snow and ice.
“but I haven’t seen bare pavement since November,”
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You’ve got that right.
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Exercise is good for one's health. However I own two exercise machines and do all my sweating at home, in complete safety (I'm not Harry Reid) and just a few yards away from the shower. I think it is not polite to exercise in a place that other people use to get to work. People don't exercise on a bus, don't they? Why then should it be socially acceptable to pedal a bicycle among cars, surrounded by exhaust, on a wet or dusty pavement, in rain or snow or heat? Does it make any sense to risk your life every day? Does it make any sense to arrive at work already tired?
Ughhhh. Walking and biking will not be increased unless density is drastically increased, and I do not see how that can be done in a non-coercive manner. Walking will get you 3-5 miles in an hour, biking probably 10 to 20 miles, and outside of major cities very few people have commutes much over half an hour.
Use of trains is limited by use of them being cheaper than downtown parking, and going from where people are to where they want to go.
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