Young people
Survey: Freedom From Car Dependence Appeals Across Generations
When it comes to what Millennials and Baby Boomers look for in a community, the generation gap may be overstated.
April 30, 2014
Survey: Millennials Willing to Relocate for Better Transportation Options
Young people want to live in cities that give them a variety of transportation options and make it easy to get around without a car. That's the key finding from a new survey of more than 700 young adults by the Global Strategy Group. The survey was commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and Transportation for America.
April 23, 2014
Talking Headways Podcast: Play the Gray Away
Jeff and I had a great time this week, getting all outraged at the short-sighted move by the Tennessee Senate to ban dedicated lanes for transit, and high and mighty about cities that devote too much space to surface parking at the expense of just about everything else. And then we treat ourselves to a fun conversation about the origin of the American playground -- and whether the entire city should be the playground.
April 2, 2014
#GOPHipster Ads Try to Reach Young People With Gas-Price Populism. Oops.
How embarrassing. The Republican National Committee’s outreach to young potential voters misses the mark so badly they're just proving the point they were hoping to disprove: The party is absolutely clueless about young people.
March 20, 2014
How Windshield Perspective Shapes the Way We See the World
Via Shane Phillips at Planetizen: A new study published in the Transportation Research Record confirms that windshield perspective is all-too real. Observing the world from behind the wheel, it turns out, has a powerful influence on our judgments about places and even people.
January 7, 2014
Report: More Kids Are Walking to School
The long-term decline of walking and biking to school has been linked to the childhood obesity epidemic, a big share of morning rush hour traffic, and even kids' lack of attention in class. In 1969, 41 percent of children in grades K–8 lived within one mile of school, and of those kids, 89 percent usually walked or biked. By 2009, 31 percent lived within a mile of school -- and only 35 percent of them walked or biked.
December 3, 2013
What Did UCLA Really Discover About Millennials’ Reasons for Driving Less?
Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits.
November 5, 2013
Trick-or-Treat: Is Your Neighborhood Walkable Enough for Halloween?
There’s nothing worse than buying bags and bags of Halloween candy and then no one comes trick-or-treating at your door. (Hmm, scratch that -- there are definitely worse things.) But anyway. You know your neighborhood leaves something to be desired if you don’t have little ghosts and princesses banging on your door tonight.
October 31, 2013