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

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. For complicated reasons, I once did drive in San Francisco

It was a nightmare. If I lived there, I wouldn't drive either, between the drawbacks of driving, the adequate public transportation system, and the temperate weather.