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NHTS Survey: Driving = Down. Transit, Walking and Cycling = Up

Michael Graham Richard, 3 March 2010, Canada: TreeHugger - Cars & Transportation Via Streetsblog Visit Site
Data from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) for 2009 contains some encouraging transportation trends when compared to the previous survey done in 2001. It shows that the share of trips that Americans made using cars dropped by more than 4%, and this decline was compensated in about equal part by increases in walking and cycling, and by public transit. What does this mean?
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