{"id":3263,"date":"2013-10-11T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:02:45","slug":"a-trend-away-from-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/a-trend-away-from-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"a trend away from cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A recent article in the New York Times<\/a> described a curious trend that\u2019s showing up in countries as varied as Germany, Norway, Canada and Japan \u2013 a trend that shows fewer young people are driving cars compared to their parents.<\/p>\n

The findings show that Millennials<\/em> \u2013 people currently in their twenties \u2013 are less likely to get their driver\u2019s licence now than in previous generations. Young people are more likely to take transit or cycle, and overall, the number of car trips taken on a per capita basis has been declining for the last several years.\u00a0 In the US, people in their twenties drive about 20% less than their parents did when they were in their twenties.<\/p>\n

There are quite a number of studies that together confirm this trend, although there\u2019s no agreement on what is causing it. Increasing gas prices and weak economic climates in some countries may have contributed to this trend, researchers feel that other longer-term dynamics are the real reason young people are increasingly turning away from the car and finding other ways to get around.<\/p>\n

One key theory is that increasing urbanization is a critical factor. In this theory, when people live within walking distance (defined as roughly 500 metres) from transit, it\u2019s easier to leave the keys at home and let transit do the driving.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, other recent studies carried out show that while baby boomers are ageing beyond the years when they drive the most miles, Millennials aren\u2019t picking up the slack.\u00a0 The result is that total miles driven is steadily decreasing, and is projected to continue to do so over time.<\/p>\n

This change is bound to require a shift in long-term transportation policies developed by governments, including an increased investment in transit.<\/p>\n

York Region residents do a lot of driving covering a large geographic area, and even with the launch of vivaNext along its major corridors, there\u2019s no doubt this pattern isn\u2019t going to change overnight. \u00a0But as it does, we\u2019re going to be in good shape, thanks to our vivaNext plans for region-wide rapid transit giving residents more options.\u00a0 We are already seeing the trend here with transit ridership increasing every year.<\/p>\n

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A recent article in the New York Times described a curious trend that\u2019s showing up in countries as varied as Germany, Norway, Canada and Japan \u2013 a trend that shows fewer young people are driving cars compared to their parents. The findings show that Millennials \u2013 people currently in their twenties \u2013 are less likely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,62],"tags":[18,76,350,21,939,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-live-work-play","tag-city-planning","tag-congestion","tag-growth","tag-transit","tag-urban-planning","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}