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Why Climate Change is Turning Off Millennials From Driving

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 | warai03p | No Comments

By Joe Baur at Article 3

for mikeAmerican Millennials returning to urban cores across the country has become a familiar narrative. So too, has that of Millennials ditching the car in favor of living in walkable and bikeable neighborhoods. Study after study has confirmed both points and cities are reacting accordingly to accommodate the changing demographics.

But cities can only do so much. In the course of these shifting demographics, Millennials have shown a growing preference for a more sustainable, eco-friendly existence. More than any other generation, they seem to be more keenly aware of how humans have impacted the world.

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Why Do Non-Drivers Say No to Cars?

Sunday, March 24th, 2013 | warai03p | No Comments

By Beck Eleven and Diana Dekker at Stuff

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Nearly 90,000 nervous people sat their learner licence tests last year, and close to 58,000 of them passed. Most were under 30 and most of them probably couldn’t wait to get legally behind the wheel.

Getting a driver’s licence is a rite of passage for young people, even for a sprinkling of people in their 40s or older (134 people aged 65 and over sat the test in the past year). But not for some. Some pass their test early, drive for a bit, then stow their licences in a drawer, deciding that driving is not for them. Others never even dare to try. They feel they are too timid, too environmentally conscious, too old or too dreamy to be in charge of a car.

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A New Movement for The New City

Sunday, March 24th, 2013 | warai03p | No Comments

By Bruce McVean, at Movement for Liveable London

Cities have always been shaped bytransport, while the planning and design of cities impacts on transport choices. The first cities were inherently walkable – the primary mode of transport was people’s feet and cities were necessarily compact in size and form as a result.

Public transport allowed cities to grow well beyond a size that would allow a person to comfortably walk from one side to the other. The expansion of train, tram, bus and tube lines helped suburbia spread, but the component parts of suburban growth remained walkable – homes needed to be within walking distance of train stations, tram stops, bus routes, shops and services. Today we’d say that cities were expanding through ‘transit orientated development’.

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Why People Choose Cars, Even When Mass Transit Would Serve Them Better

Monday, February 4th, 2013 | warai03p | No Comments

Original article by Eric Jaffe at The Atlantic Cities

People don’t always make rational decisions. The entire field of behavioral economics, with all its colorfully named biases and heuristics, is based on our irrationality.

Go ahead and add cars to the illogical list too. In an upcoming paper in Transport Policy, a group of Italian researchers report that people show an irrational bias toward automobiles — they call it the “car effect.” Instead of considering all travel modes and choosing the one that saves the most time and money, people prefer to drive even when it’s not the best objective option.

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Car pollution, noise and accidents ‘cost every EU citizen £600 a year’

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 | warai03p | No Comments

Original article by Peter Walker at The Guardian.

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The perennial complaint from drivers that they are excessively taxed has been challenged by a study which concludes that road accidents, pollution and noise connected to cars costs every EU citizen more than £600 a year.The report by transport academics at the Dresden Technical University in Germany calculated that even with drivers’ insurance contributions discounted these factors amounted to an annual total of €373bn (£303bn) across the 27 EU member states, or around 3% of the bloc’s entire yearly GDP. This breaks down as €750 per man, woman and child.

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