{"id":1612,"date":"2013-06-27T03:56:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2013-06-27T04:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T04:08:30","slug":"a-new-direction-our-changing-relationship-with-driving-and-the-implications-for-americas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/a-new-direction-our-changing-relationship-with-driving-and-the-implications-for-americas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A New Direction: Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the Implications for America&#8217;s Future.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Original Article at <a title=\" U.S. PIRG Education Fund \" href=\"http:\/\/uspirg.org\/node\/23946\/\" target=\"_blank\">US PIRG<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Driving Boom\u2014a six decade-long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States\u2014is over.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1613\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uspirg.org\/node\/23946\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1613\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2013\/06\/Mileage-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2013\/06\/Mileage-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2013\/06\/Mileage-426x300.jpg 426w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2013\/06\/Mileage.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total and Per-Capita Vehicle-Miles Traveled, U.S.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Americans drive fewer total miles today than we did eight years ago, and fewer per person than we did at the end of Bill Clinton\u2019s first term. The unique combina\u00adtion of conditions that fueled the Driving Boom\u2014from cheap gas prices to the rapid expansion of the workforce during the Baby Boom generation\u2014no longer exists. Meanwhile, a new generation\u2014the Mil\u00adlennials\u2014is demanding a new American Dream less dependent on driving.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Our Changing Relationship with Driving and the Implications for America\u2019s Future \" href=\"http:\/\/uspirg.org\/node\/23946\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continued at original site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Article at US PIRG The Driving Boom\u2014a six decade-long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States\u2014is over. Americans drive fewer total miles today than we did eight years ago, and fewer per person than we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/a-new-direction-our-changing-relationship-with-driving-and-the-implications-for-americas-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6852,6846,6851,6847,111,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-dependency","category-car-ownership","category-economics","category-licensure","category-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}