To steal a chart from Matt Yglesias, this is a really fascinating chart relating to car usage. Looking at it, there is at best a weak correlation between population density and car usage. To me, what this suggests is that ar usage is largely cultural. In European countries there is an ingrained bias in favor [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Car Usage’
May 11, 2008
Look at that, people are price sensitive
A couple of days ago I noted that DC Metro ridership is way up in this era of high gas prices. Today, in the New York Times, I see that it’s not just DC, but the entire country that’s seeing a mass transit boom. In the New York region ridership is up between 5 and [...]
