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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (167027)	4/11/2012 8:04:14 AM
From: tom pope	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206325

The share of 14 to 34-year-olds without a driver’s license increased by 5 percentage points, rising from 21 percent in 2000 to 26 percent in 2010, according to the Federal Highway Administration. A driver's license has become the equivalent of a national ID. How do these kids get by?

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (167027)	4/11/2012 5:48:07 PM
From: t4texas	1 Recommendation Respond to of 206325

i think the writer likely intended to write the sentence in reverse order of simple logic. if the kids don't have the money, they won't be buying a car. "They don’t view the car the way their parents did, and they don’t have the money that their parents did.”

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (167027)	4/11/2012 6:26:02 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206325

Americans, especially generations X and Y, want shorter commutes, walkability and a car-free existence. Which means that around 40 million large-lot exurban McMansions, built primarily during the housing boom, might never find occupants. Only 43 percent of Americans prefer big suburban homes, says Chris Nelson, head of the Metropolitan Research Center at the University of Utah. That mean demand for “large-lot” homes is currently 40 million short of the available stock — and not only that, but the U.S. is short 10 million attached homes and 30 million small homes, which are what people really want. “If we are optimistic that the world is not coming to an end and we’re going to get out of this economic trough, it’s a good time to consider, when production does ramp up, how we will be building as a country,” [says Joe Molinaro head of the National Association of Realtors' smart growth program.] grist.org

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (167027)	4/11/2012 10:17:56 PM
From: JimisJim	1 Recommendation Respond to of 206325

Anecdotal data: our daughter is one of only three of her peers (group of about a dozen 20-21 yr. olds) with a driver's license and one of the others just got his as he turned 21. Our daughter and the other girl with a license more or less had to get their licenses for jobs. Our daughter's boy friend (since middle school) doesn't drive at all, doesn't want to, takes bus and train all the time, but does kick in gas money as my daughter drives them around when they are together, though that is not often these days as they go to colleges 700 miles apart. And this is in SoCal where I don't think I could survive without a vehicle. I don't understand this phenomenon at all. Growing up in rural Ohio, I started driving on the farm at 14-15, got my license (1st try) the day after I turned 16 and never looked back.