San Francisco residents relying less on private automobiles

[marmar]

from the Los Angeles Times:


San Franciscan Rian Adams has broken her reliance on the automobile. Parking in the city's congested urban core where she lives and works is too much hassle, and her two-mile commute typically takes five minutes on BART.

Around town, the 34-year-old says, "I don't drive anywhere."

Nor do a lot of others in the City by the Bay.

In stark contrast to car-dependent Los Angeles, studies show that most trips in the burgeoning tech metropolis are now made by modes of transportation other than the private automobile.

Travel surveys by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency have shown that more than half of all trips — 54% in 2013 and 52% in 2012 — involved public transit, walking, bicycles and various car-share or ride-share operations such as Uber and Lyft. ......................(more)

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0224-california-commute-20150224-story.html

[MisterP]

1. then again LA's subway/LRT system is also expanding--the Gold Line's approaching Pasadena

and the Expo Santa Monica--these all have disproportionate traffic effects because by December a 20-minute bus ride from the Westside will spare you from 45 on Wilshire's living hell: it's like lancing a boil

funny how, after taking Cheviot Hills' dinero to start complaining about the Expo Line just as the the yearlong public-comment period closed and who then sued for all-new changes as soon as Metro agreed to his demands, the World's Biggest Transit Advocate EvarTM St. Damien Goodmon has vanished from the internet and blogs altogether after taking credit for the Culver City station opening back in '12

[dilby]

2. If her commute is 2 miles I would not even use BART, save money get a bicycle. n/t