According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, approximately one-third of the nation’s residents don’t have driver’s licenses. In her 2024 book “When Driving is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency,” disability advocate Anna Zivarts argues that not only is America’s car-centric infrastructure harmful to the climate, it also fails to meet the everyday needs of many Americans.
The article of “1/3 people don’t have drivers licenses so why are we so car centric”. People still use cars (as taxis) without a drivers license. Having no license does not mean you solely rely on transit.
I’m pretty confident that most people moving around NYC are not taking a taxi on the daily. I’m guessing you don’t live here.
@jjjalljs @BCsven NYC has mad tourism. Sprawl-dwellers have nostalgia for cities and the culture that they left behind when they sprawled out, but they no longer know how to get around a city and their faux news drowns them in stories of how scary and dangerous transit is despite it being many times safer than driving. The throngs of taxis are mostly for them, even if locals occasionally use them late at night or on special occasions.
You missed the point of what I was meaning. The article was eluding to people without licenses should mean leas reliance on cars. But Uber exists, taxis exist, car pool exist. Just because a person doesn’t have a license does not equal not traveling by car.