For the Top Events of 2010, see the next post, then tell us your top event of the year. Here’s the top 3 stories of the year for NineShift.
The Year 2010 was a banner year for NineShift, making three huge discoveries. One of them garnered national online media attention in Forbes, The Atlantic, Yahoo News, Kiplinger, Advertising Age, Chicago Tribune and at least 14 other news sources.
1.NineShift Proves Gen Y Driving Less.
The auto companies have hid the facts for several years now, but this was the year NineShift discovered the data in a new Department of Transportation survey report. Gen Y is driving 37% less than previous generations of young people, and switching to trains. As the decline began well before the recession, we now know what auto companies know: auto sales have little future in post-industrial societies like the U.S. and the Auto Age will come to a close by 2020. (See our September 25 entry for more.)
PHOTO: In between making discoveries for the Internet Age, Julie makes homemade apple butter like she did in the Agrarian Age.
More on the trend, courtesy of National Association of Railroad Passengers' weekly "Hotline News:"
“Amtrak announced this week that it set a new Thanksgiving ridership record last month, carrying over 700,000 passengers over the holiday week (November 23 through November 29).
“In addition to carrying 704,446 people—2.7% over 2009’s number, the previous record—Amtrak carried 134,230 customers on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, setting the new single-day ridership record.
“The record ridership demonstrates Amtrak’s ability to satisfy the traveling needs of the public and highlights the need for America to invest more in passenger rail to meet the increasing demand,” said President and CEO Joseph Boardman.
“State supported trains and other short distance corridors did particularly well, up 5.1% over the same period last year. Long distance trains were up 3.9% over 2009. And the Acela Express service saw rapid growth of 12,9%, although ridership on the Northeast Corridor as a whole dropped slightly.”
Link to whole column below:
http://www.narprail.org/cms/index.php/hotline/more/hotline_684/
Oh, also in that newsletter, you will appreciate reading you were right about the rail money Walker let go; it's going where it is appreciated.
Posted by: D. P. Lubic | December 10, 2010 at 07:59 PM
Julie makes homemade apple butter like she did in the Agrarian Age.
And I thought Bill said 75 -100 years ago wasa the Agrarian Age - I'm pretty sure Julie wasn't making apple butter then - maybe during the Age of Aquarious?
Posted by: Richard | December 01, 2010 at 04:51 PM