Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Young people

Census Data Shows How Much Less Millennials and Gen-Xers Commute by Car

By Joseph Kane and Adie Tomer | Oct 8, 2014 | 2 Comments

Cross-posted from Brookings’ The Avenue blog. This article is the second in a short series examining new Census data on transportation trends. Nationally, most commuters are still revving up their cars to get to work every morning, but the picture is more complicated when you look across different age groups. Based on the latest Census data from […]

Why Transit Agencies Should Woo “Bohemian Boomers” and “Metro Moms”

By Payton Chung | Sep 18, 2014 | 3 Comments

A new national survey released today by TransitCenter seeks to understand not just the who, but also the why, of Americans’ increasing transit use. The survey found that Americans’ feelings towards transit and cities vary considerably by age, personal values, and whether transit provides a feasible travel option in their neighborhoods. Factors that don’t have much […]

One Dad’s Twitter Photo Essay on His Daughter’s Perilous Walk to School

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

“So who’s up for a long rant/photo-essay about kids walking to school and urban design on this fine back-to-school Thursday morning?” asked Canadian author and journalist Chris Turner on Twitter this morning. And so began a numbered tour of the hazards encountered on his 9-year-old daughter’s walk to school. It was partly inspired by this […]

Is Your City a Great Place to Raise Kids? Could It Be?

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 20, 2014 | 3 Comments

Jennifer Langston of the Sightline Institute in Seattle has so far published eight articles in a series called Family-Friendly Cities. She shows that while Seattle has a lower share of the population under age 15 than the rest of the state of Washington, that gap is closing. The number of kids in Seattle is growing far […]

Are Children Parasites on Cities’ Finances?

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 20, 2014 | 31 Comments

No sooner did Streetsblog LA roll out its new series (and hashtag) #streetsr4families than the Washington Post asked whether it really benefits cities to attract families with kids at all. After all, wrote Lydia DePillis yesterday, while single twenty-somethings freely spend their money on $12 cocktails and $50 concert tickets, parents avail themselves of taxpayer-funded […]

“Safe Routes” Goes Global With the Model School Zone Project

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 31, 2014 | No Comments

This post is part of a series featuring stories and research that will be presented at the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference September 8-11 in Pittsburgh. To get to Seoul Gumsan Elementary School in South Korea, students have to cross a heavily trafficked road with a blind curve. Between 2009 and 2010, 89 children were injured and one killed in 86 traffic […]

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