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The Volvo has stolen $214,177.23 from our son’s college education.
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America’s Car Ownership Rate Higher Now Than Before the Recession
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After growing for a few years, the share of car-free households in America has dropped below 2006 levels.
Uber and Lyft Don’t Reduce Cars. Transit Does.
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Seattle is the only major city that really grew the number of car-free and car-light households in the last five years. It's also the only one that's really grown transit ridership.
Seattleites Own More Cars Than Atlantans, and Other Surprising Comparisons
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Here’s an interesting glimpse at car ownership in a cross-section of American and Canadian cities, courtesy of a recent report from the Shared Use Mobility Center. This table comes from SUMC’s analysis of car-share and bike-share [PDF]. We trimmed it to highlight the cars per household across the 27 cities — 25 in America and two in Canada — in […]
Animation Explains How Bad Planning Makes Car Ownership Compulsory
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This is a pretty great animation explaining how American cities were undermined by a slavish dedication to storing and moving cars. It’s by comedian Adam Conover from TruTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything,” who also made this great video explaining the screwed up origin of the word “jaywalking.” The best part may be the animated version of parking […]
Measuring the Shift Away From Car Ownership, City By City
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A new analysis by Michael Andersen at Bike Portland helps illuminate how shifts in car ownership are playing out in different cities. Andersen reviewed Census data from 2005 and 2011. He found that households with less than one car per adult accounted for about 60 percent of Portland’s population growth. About one in four Portland households met […]
How To Bring ‘Zero Auto Ownership’ Out of the Shadows
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Cars are so ubiquitous in the United States it’s hard for some people to believe it’s possible to live without one. But in order to meet a host of urgent local, regional and national environmental and public health goals, we must drastically cut down on vehicle miles traveled (VMT).
In short: people need to drive less.