Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living — Human Transit
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Is Americans a “car culture” or are they “car dependent”?  Do they drive because they love driving, or are they in an unhealthy relationship with a substance it would be happy to do without?  Obviously there are plenty of Americans who do love their cars, but here’s more evidence that there are fewer of them […]

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/upliftingnews@lemmy.world/t/1372827

We find that nearly one fifth of urban and suburban US car owners express a definite interest in living car-free (18 %), and an additional 40 % are open to the idea. This is in addition to the small share (10 %) of urban and suburban US residents currently living without a car.

  • doleoEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Every fucking car advert is some giant SUV coasting around mountain passes and on vacant beaches, or some CGI city with no traffic lights. People are not being sold the idea of traffic and decimated urban landscape, yet that is what they get for their dreams of speed.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      Ironically people who actually want that experience should be the loudest advocates for practical mass transit alternatives to driving… so less people clog up roads.