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You're afflicted right now by one of those beliefs that is simultaneously obvious, intuitive, and completely false. See http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report
by raldi 8y ago
You're afflicted right now by one of those beliefs that is simultaneously obvious, intuitive, and completely false.
See http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_704LRR.pdf http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_704LRR.pdf for instance: "[In the Bay Area,] Low-income workers walk, carpool, and use public transit at higher rates than their more affluent counterparts".
And on page 86 you can see that 70% of high-income folks drive alone to work. Amongst poor people (their term), it's 51%. Meanwhile, 5% of high-income residents of the Bay Area take the bus to work. Amongst poor people, 12%.
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- closeparen 8y agoThat's from 2004. The contemporary story of gentrification is higher-income workers choosing the urban core, and lower-income workers getting pushed to the suburban periphery where adequate transit coverage is less likely. The relevant quantity here is vehicle mileage, not mode share. I expected lower-income workers to drive much longer distances (whereas the rich would have more car trips but trivial distances). So I'm more interested in "Other research suggests that low-income workers travel shorter distances than other workers" which is genuinely surprising. I wonder how that's fared over time. [0] Page ix