- 56 percent of Michigan teenagers had driver’s licenses in 2021, down from 66 percent in 2000
- Reasons for the decline include being too busy to learn and high car ownership costs
- Cuts in driver’s ed funding may be disproportionately impacting Black and low-income teens
- TheRealCharlesEames ( @TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ) English10•1 year ago
We don’t want cars, we want walkable cities
- Banzai51 ( @Banzai51@midwest.social ) English3•1 year ago
Horse has already left that barn. We need public transportation to link our sprawl.
- TheRealCharlesEames ( @TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year ago
Why not both?
- Banzai51 ( @Banzai51@midwest.social ) English2•1 year ago
One is extremely cheaper and more economically viable than the other. We’re not going to magically go back to a time when everyone lived and worked within a small town with a cute main street with a handful of local stores. That vision of a walkable town never really existed for most.
- TheRealCharlesEames ( @TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Car dependent living is incredibly subsidized. It’s also (slowly) becoming more obvious as the cause of our pollution and traffic problems. For those reasons, and my own determination, I am optimistic that we will see the magical towns you describe in our lifetime.
- DaSaw ( @DaSaw@midwest.social ) English4•1 year ago
Redevelopment can be walkable. It’ll take a half century or two to get a lot of walkable areas, but we can get there over time.
- TheBurlapBandit ( @TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Horse transport was getting horrific before automobiles took off. NYC had rotting horse corpses everywhere and the streets were basically made of horseshit.