Who Drove Alone to Work
Here’s a follow-up to the previous post about gas prices. It’s good to see the number of commuters who drove alone dropped a small amount from 2007 to 2008, but the figures are still shockingly high. It’s telling that the lowest number in the legend is “less than 75.0 percent”.
7 Responses to “Who Drove Alone to Work”
It is sad that the lowest number in the legend is “less than 75%” but I’m impressed that Pacific states (and Montana!) dominate this demographic. I wouldn’t have expected California, king of strip malls, to have made that grade (I say this having grown up in the bay area).
How to lie with maps and statistics… If you look at the actual numbers – not just the percentage – california is over 12,000,000. Next is texas at 8,000,000; florida at 6,000,000; then new york, pennsylvania, illinois, ohio at 4,000,000. west virginia is barely 600,000. Yes, california and texas are still the biggest problems.
Greenobike, your numbers are by the pure total numbers, but California also has a higher population than anywhere else in the nation too. So, they are offending at a much lower rate than other states. The map is using an appropriate statistic for comparison: percentage.
I didn’t realize it until i moved out to the PacNW, but we consider a good chunk of MT (And they do too more specifically) part of the PacNW
i am nuts to bo out on my 3 wheeled limb. a pecan. a walnut. a pistachio. filbert. cashew. brazil. i get a massive shot in the damn arm when i see a 3 wheeled car on the road.
when i saw a parade of bikes go by, waiting for the max train, (it was part of the freakbikes fest,
and there was this beautiful homebuilt semi recumbent, tallbikes, a bodysocked easy racer, a couple unicycles, etc) it made my dormant soul happy. i am going into dormancy for the winter.
but the 4 wheels will go on and on and on..damn i crave dormancy. i would brave an alaskan life part of the year for it. but fortunately i have discovered rocking chairs and that does the trick.
as for the spectre of endless traffic, i have found jazz music to be the mighty refuge for that.
The figures are very high for all states. We need a lot of infrastructure work as a carrot and regulations and obstacles for motor vehicle traffic as the stick to fix this.
don’t forget puerto rico is not a state…it’s a colony of the u.s. since 1898 and it’s about time that p.r. gets rid of the yankee colonial system imposed on them since then. did i hear someone say “gi’me liberty”?