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>Many, many people already do this on public transport Total fantasy. Virtually nobody uses public transport. 5% of commuters use public transport. Relative to
by MajorLOL 11y ago
>Many, many people already do this on public transport
Total fantasy. Virtually nobody uses public transport. 5% of commuters use public transport. Relative to the car-pooling, who sees double the volume of users as public transport, 10%.
http://traveltrends.transportation.org/Documents/CA10-4.pdf http://traveltrends.transportation.org/Documents/CA10-4.pdf
- SEJeff 11y agoGuess that depends on where you live. In cities like NYC, or Chicago (where I live), having a car in the city is common, but the minority.
- zevyoura 11y agoIn the US, only NYC has over half of households without a vehicle [0]. Chicago has only 28% with no vehicle. [0] http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21923-hitchin-a-ride-fewer-americans-have-their-own-vehicle http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21923-hitchin-a-ride-fewer-...
- astrange 11y agoHow many people use public transit in Europe, or Japan and Korea?
- IanCal 11y agoFor commuting, roughly 20% in the UK or about 4 million people (26M working residents, ~80% commuters). About 50% within London. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/distance-travelled-to-work/2011-census-analysis---distance-travelled-to-work.html#tab-Method-of-travel-to-work http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/di...
- chockablock 11y agoSo what? The reason so few people use public transit across the US is very likely because it sucks at getting them door-to-door in a reasonable amount of time. The question is: if that changes, what might people choose to do? The example of large cities like NYC at least teaches us that the American preference for solo car travel is not fixed.
- IanCal 11y agoClose to 20% across the UK (representing about 4 million people) and close to 50% in London (compared to 35% driving). http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/distance-travelled-to-work/2011-census-analysis---distance-travelled-to-work.html#tab-Method-of-travel-to-work http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/di... These are not insignificant figures. If you say "people don't want to do X" when millions of people in my country already do a more extreme form of X, then I think you're wrong.