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77% of Americans drive to work alone

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The Creative Class blog noticed a US Census press release on commute statistics. According to the most recent survey, 87.7% of Americans drive to work and 77% drive alone. Only 4.7% use public transportation, that's a 0.1% increase over 2000 levels. The Creative Class people then wondered which cities have the best public transportation usage rates: New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC  were the top three (no surprise). Boston was #5 with 10.7% of people riding transit, almost the same as #4 Chicago.

These numbers probably aren't a surprise to anyone, but they are surely disappointing for conservation and transit advocates. 

Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 10:40AM by Registered Commentertherevitalist in | CommentsPost a Comment

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