Suburbs scramble to meet needs of 'car-averse' millennials

More convincing evidence another NineShift prediction is coming true.  And we love the Washington Post front page story with the term 'car-averse' in the headline. 

In its front page story, “Suburbs scramble to add transit to attract car-averse millennials,” The Washington Post (March 30, 2015) writers note, “Mass transit, once viewed as a prescription for traffic congestion, is now considered a must-have economic development tool to attract millennials — the country’s largest living generation — along with their employers, and the taxes that both contribute to local governments.”

Photo: License plate on our new car. Only old people buy new cars now.  

 

Comments

[David Lubic]

When will things get easy, or at least easier?

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/amtrak-acela-high-speed-trains-20150417?utm_content=buffera0991&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[David Lubic]

The fight is in many ways a titanic struggle:

http://www.attn.com/stories/295/how-two-billionaires-are-destroying-high-speed-rail-america

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/09/25/the-koch-brothers-war-on-transit/

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/01/why_are_the_kochs_trying_to_stop_a_transit_project_in_nashville/

[David Lubic]

And the link to the Washington Post story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/yearning-for-car-averse-millennials-suburbs-turn-to-transit/2015/03/29/cb916cd8-d259-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html

[David Lubic]

Of interest, as pointed out by Fritz Plous at National Corridors' newsletter "Destination Freedom," nobody at Bloomberg calls out that the unwillingness to raise the revenue for roads from drivers amounts to a huge subsidy--but railroads are supposed to make money.

http://www.nationalcorridors.org/df4/df04132015.shtml

[David Lubic]

And the fight goes on:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-31/toll-battles-mount-as-u-s-states-seek-cash-for-ailing-highways