Get out the bikes! Gas $4.09/gal in Seattle.

[shootingstar]

It just dawned upon me...I never thought about it until now.. each of my partner's adult children (nearing 30), have never owned/leased a car yet.

Each of them do live close to public transit and they use it often. After the divorce, my partner gave up car ownership completely. And chose to live in a place close to public transit, services and stores. By then, the children were teenagers. So they used public transit to get to his place. This is a city of over 2 million people.

Now at this time, each with their own places, they walk probably at least 1-2 kms. every few days or more often on a weekly basis to do stuff. Or occasionally taxi. No, they don't bike at this time. He might have suggested once...and quickly gave up.

So I guess, if you include a generational thing of non-car ownership /non-car use, here's one example...but something that just evolved naturally over time.

When there is mass public transit strike as it happened in Toronto (several times) and Vancouver, that's when you do find out how many people don't have cars or cannot use a car for themselves (because someone else in family needs it.)

and Kelownagirl...I guess we'll find out how sprawly Kelowna is...we'll be there in June..there's a cycling meeting where the Kelowna advocacy cycling reps. will be talking about their local situation.