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PIRG report overstates millennials’ anti-car, anti-suburb preferences

Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation writes:

The story line is that Millennials are not very interested in getting a driver’s license or living in the suburbs; they want to live downtown and walk, bike, or use transit. PIRG then does a lot of number crunching to produce VMT projections through 2040 that are drastically lower than anyone else’s, and uses those results to argue for shifting a lot more transportation dollars from highways to transit, bikeways, etc. …

[This] story about Millennials losing interest in driving appears to be mostly an artifact of the recession’s severe impact on younger people, not a fundamental change in their choices of where to live or how to travel.

Read the whole post: PIRG report overstates millennials’ anti-car, anti-suburb preferences | Complete Colorado – Page Two.