[CTPP] RE: No Car but Drive Alone to Work

[Bill Moore]

Or motorcycles or motor scooters?  (Or, maybe just too many hours of Grand Theft Auto?  :-)

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Subject: [CTPP] RE: No Car but Drive Alone to Work


Have you ruled out bicycling?

Don Burrell, AICP, Senior Planner
Bicycle / Pedestrian Coordinator
OKI Regional Council of Governments
720 East Pete Rose Way,  Suite 420
Cincinnati, OH 45202-3576
513-621-6300
513-621-9325 - fax
dburrell at oki.org
<A bicycle is an instrument for playing the road>


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From: ctpp-news-bounces at chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces at chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Cook, Cliff
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 3:52 PM
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Subject: [CTPP] No Car but Drive Alone to Work

I'm hoping someone can help me address this question from a colleague.  He put together a table from the 2006-2008 ACS showing mode of journey to work by vehicles owned and came up with surprisingly large numbers who do not won a car yet drive alone to work. No doubt, there are a few people who fit this category but my guess is that this largely is the result of either people misunderstanding the question or some sort of coding problem. Here is an excerpt from his email ( the Cambridge here is Cambridge, Massachusetts):

I'm looking at ACS data and specifically at cities and percent workers have no car available.  From that I'm then looking to see how those workers get to work.

The attached worksheet shows my work.  What is strange is that it shows for Cambridge that 6.6% of people without a car available drove alone to work.  The percent is similar to Boston. And NYC has 3.4% of workers with No vehicles available driving alone to work.

So, the question is, how can someone without a vehicle drive to work alone?  Do you have any ideas on this?  It could be someone doesn't own a vehicle, but drives a friend's car to work. Or has no car of their own, but uses a company car to get to work.  But seems like a high number for this.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks

Cliff Cook
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