Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
I take this silly response as evidence that your concept of "millions" of people in North America "successfully" converting from personal car based transportation to a car free status, especially without significant lifestyle adjustments, is your own pipe-dream.
According to Brookings Institute (using US Census data) there are 7.5 million
households in metro areas with no access to car, 10 million in the entire country. Since more the one person lives in each household, the total number of people who are carless would b much higher than 10 million.
And this is in the US only--a wealthy country, with poor transit and lots of urban sprawl, and the highest car ownership rates in the world. I suppose that worldwide, the number of people without cars would be in the billions. With a "B".
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Fil...tion_tomer.pdf