{"id":2598,"date":"2013-12-04T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:48:48","slug":"report-shows-more-biking-public-transit-use-in-three-michigan-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/12\/04\/report-shows-more-biking-public-transit-use-in-three-michigan-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Shows More Biking, Public Transit Use In Three Michigan Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MediumGrid21\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">A first-of-its-kind report by PIRGIM Education Fund shows reduced rates of car commuting in Michigan\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">urbanized areas<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u2014including Grand Rapids, Detroit and Flint\u2014and greater use of public transit and biking, especially in Grand Rapids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MediumGrid21\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The report, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pirgimedfund.org\/reports\/mif\/transportation-transition\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Transportation in Transition: A Look at Changing Travel Patterns in America\u2019s Biggest Cities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">,\u201d is based on the most current available government data. 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In Grand Rapids, transit passenger miles per person increased by <strong>over 50%<\/strong>\u2014the 7<sup>th<\/sup> largest percentage increase among the 100 largest urban areas in that category. Measured in terms of the number of trips taken on public transit per-capita, Grand Rapids witnessed a <strong>51.2 percent<\/strong> increase from 2005 to 2010. Flint ranked 10<sup>th<\/sup> in increased passenger trips per-capita out of the 100 areas studied, with a <strong>31.1 percent<\/strong> increase between 2005 and 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MediumGrid21\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.25in\"><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The proportion of commuters travelling by bicycle grew in Flint, Detroit, and Grand Rapids between 2000 and 2010, as it did in 82 of the other 100 most populous urbanized areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MediumGrid21\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.25in\"><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The proportion of households without a car increased <strong>2.9 percent<\/strong> in the Grand Rapids urbanized area between 2006 and 2011. This proportion fell in 84 of the largest 100 urbanized areas. Likewise, the proportion of households with two or more vehicles fell in 86 out the 100 most populous urbanized areas during this period, including Flint, where it fell <strong>3.8 percent.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MediumGrid21\" style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.25in\"><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\">\u00b7<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 7.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The proportion of residents working out of their home increased in all 100 of America\u2019s most populous urbanized areas between 2000 and 2010, including in Grand Rapids, which had the 35<sup>th<\/sup> steepest increase among that group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">The study found that cities with the largest decreases in driving were <em>not<\/em> those hit hardest by the recession. On the contrary, the economies of urbanized areas with the largest declines in driving appear to have been <em>less affected <\/em>by the recession according to unemployment, income and poverty indicators.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MediumGrid21\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Across the nation, young people have shown the steepest reductions in driving. Americans 16 to 34 years of age reduced their average driving miles by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MediumGrid21\"><em>John LaMacchia is a Legislative <\/em>Associate for the League Handling Transportation and Infrastructure issues. 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