Comments on: That license can wait (updated)

By: Auto age deathwatch (update) « west north

Auto age deathwatch (update) « west north — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:10:32 +0000

[...] As reported here before the Great Recession, the formerly inexorable decline in driving came to a sudden halt, and slipped into reverse, a few years ago. A few recent NY Times articles also pinpoint the date of this inflection point to the mid-2000s, when more teenagers began to forego drivers’ licenses: [...]

By: Americans loving their cars a bit less « west north

Americans loving their cars a bit less « west north — Sat, 07 May 2011 01:28:26 +0000

[...] I’ve pointed out that young Americans aren’t quite in love with driving. Now, via WashCycle, a link to a 2006 Pew study (predating the current recession and $4 gas) with [...]

By: payton

payton — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:52:35 +0000

A post by Richard Florida highlights recent statistics published in Ad Age about declining VMT and license holder rates among Americans under 30. Perhaps this cohort is disproportionately accountable for the flattening in VMT growth in recent years?

By: Urbanism works at getting people out of cars « west north

Urbanism works at getting people out of cars « west north — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:41:31 +0000

[...] apparently isn’t nearly as much of a minority view as it might seem, particularly among younger Americans. A Concord Group survey of Millennial homebuyers, noted in Builder, found that 81% of young people [...]

By: payton

payton — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:28:07 +0000

And now there's this, from "veteran auto industry analyst" John Casesa, quoted by Maynard: “There’s a cultural change taking place. It’s partly because of the severe economic contraction. But younger consumers are viewing an automobile with a jaundiced eye. They don’t view the car the way their parents did, and they don’t have the money that their parents did.”

By: Auto age deathwatch « west north

Auto age deathwatch « west north — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:53:40 +0000

[...] news than the forthcoming fixed-gear apocalypse (now with its very own Facebook group!), the signs of the automobile’s waning hegemony continue to mount. “We’re on the edge of people changing their travel patterns,” says John [...]

By: daver

daver — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:52:16 +0000

You know this maybe signs of a significant change. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago getting your license and driving to school was almost a right of passage. To see kids not worry about it wow that is change.