Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Exactly. All of the news articles recently cited on this topic refer to trends that may be transitory, and have often used cloudy crystal balls to fabricate misleading headlines.
Headlines are junk. Somebody in editorial adds them to grab attention, and half the time they misrepresent the article, as everybody in this thread understands, starting with the OP'er who put the question mark in the thread title for that very reason. The headline on the second article you posted ('Peak Driving' is looking like a myth) was not much better than the car culture one, since nobody has actually claimed that we've reached peak driving, so the headline was knocking down a straw man.