Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Young people

Millennials Will Drive More As They Age, But Still Less Than Their Parents

By Tanya Snyder | May 14, 2013 | 20 Comments

At some point over the past few years, a lot of my friends started moving to Silver Spring and Takoma Park and Falls Church. These inner-ring, transit-connected suburbs of DC are still far less compact and walkable than the neighborhoods my friends moved from. So they bought cars. Why did they do this? They’re entering […]

Where Is the Bottom? Americans Continue to Drive Less and Less

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 23, 2013 | 27 Comments

The downward slide continues. Driving activity in America, adjusted for population, has hit a new low since before the economic downturn began. Doug Short, an independent analyst who evaluated data recently released by FHWA, finds that when controlling for population growth, it’s been more than seven years, or 92 months, since American driving activity last […]

Streetfacts: Americans Are Driving Less

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 3, 2013 | No Comments

We continue our Streetfacts series by looking at the data on driving in the U.S. Per-capita driving has declined every year since 2005. That’s not a blip, it’s now an 8-year trend. The reason? Neither the state of the economy nor changes in gas prices offer a satisfactory explanation. Social preferences and demographic shifts seem to […]

As Youth Driver Licensing Dips Again, A Focus on the Millennials

By Tony Dutzik | Mar 15, 2013 | 10 Comments

Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group, a non-profit public policy think tank. In 2011, the percentage of 16-to-24 year olds with driver’s licenses dipped to another new low. Just over two-thirds of these young Americans (67 percent) were licensed to drive in 2011, based on the latest licensing data from the Federal […]

How to Diversify Bicycle Culture in Three Easy Steps

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 4, 2013 | 25 Comments

Everything you think you know about bicycling is wrong. At the National Women’s Bicycling Forum this morning, one message came through: the underrepresentation of women and people of color in cycling isn’t simply due to safety concerns and lack of protected infrastructure, as is often surmised. It’s more complicated than that. Megan Odett, who founded Kidical Mass […]

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