A viral research study led by Rababe Saadaoui, a PhD planning student in Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, has uncovered a link between car dependency and life satisfaction in the United States.
Some people hate driving but still can’t see anything wrong with this excessive car culture.
To support your point:
According to this, that might be as high as almost 1/3 of drivers. To be fair I guessed it would be higher before I looked it up, but that’s still a lot.
And most importantly, it’s a much higher percentage than the percentage of the population the zoning code allows to live in multifamily housing (which can be as low as 10% in some metro areas), which I’m using as a proxy for walkable communities even though they don’t necessarily line up perfectly.
Point is, in a lot of cases the law requires constructing the built environment in a way that forces people to drive even when they don’t want to.
To support your point:
According to this, that might be as high as almost 1/3 of drivers. To be fair I guessed it would be higher before I looked it up, but that’s still a lot.
And most importantly, it’s a much higher percentage than the percentage of the population the zoning code allows to live in multifamily housing (which can be as low as 10% in some metro areas), which I’m using as a proxy for walkable communities even though they don’t necessarily line up perfectly.
Point is, in a lot of cases the law requires constructing the built environment in a way that forces people to drive even when they don’t want to.