Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Young people

Talking Headways Podcast: Play the Gray Away

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 2, 2014 | 1 Comment

Jeff and I had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit, and high and mighty about cities that devote too much space to surface parking at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a […]

#GOPHipster Ads Try to Reach Young People With Gas-Price Populism. Oops.

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 20, 2014 | 18 Comments

How embarrassing. The Republican National Committee’s outreach to young potential voters misses the mark so badly they’re just proving the point they were hoping to disprove: The party is absolutely clueless about young people. Exhibit A: the whiny young #GOPHipster in this RNC ad (the party calls it the “Create Your American Dream” campaign but […]

How Windshield Perspective Shapes the Way We See the World

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 7, 2014 | 18 Comments

Via Shane Phillips at Planetizen: A new study published in the Transportation Research Record confirms that windshield perspective is all-too real. Observing the world from behind the wheel, it turns out, has a powerful influence on our judgments about places and even people. Researchers found that people driving a car tend to view unfamiliar, less-affluent neighborhoods more […]

Report: More Kids Are Walking to School

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 3, 2013 | 4 Comments

The long–term decline of walking and biking to school has been linked to the childhood obesity epidemic, a big share of morning rush hour traffic, and even kids’ lack of attention in class. In 1969, 41 percent of children in grades K–8 lived within one mile of school, and of those kids, 89 percent usually walked or biked. By 2009, […]

In Portland, Every Day Is Walk and Bike to School Day

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 18, 2013 | No Comments

In many areas of the country the statistics are bleak — only a small fraction of children bike or walk to school. But Portland has bucked the trend: The number of kids using their feet to get to school is up 25 percent since 2006! Portland makes it happen through a unique blend of infrastructure, […]

What Did UCLA Really Discover About Millennials’ Reasons for Driving Less?

By Tony Dutzik | Nov 5, 2013 | 22 Comments

Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits. Members of the Millennial generation drive less than they did a decade ago. That much is clear. But are Millennials driving less simply because of the economy? Or are they driving less by choice, because of […]

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