Mother Jones
•Heavy car dependency is making American lives less satisfying, study shows
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U.S. is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world.
87 percent of Americans use their cars daily, with more than nine in 10 households having at least one vehicle.
New study finds there is a tipping point at which more driving leads to deeper unhappiness.
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https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-march-21-2022-more-half-all-daily-trips-were-less-three-miles-2021https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/investing-america-biden-harris-administration-sends-62-billion-states-bipartisanhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/07/on-the-bike-path-i-feel-a-connection-to-people-your-shared-spaceshttps://www.statista.com/statistics/859950/vehicles-in-operation-by-quarter-united-states/https://islandpress.org/books/when-driving-not-option#deschttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/29/could-the-us-highways-that-split-communities-on-racial-lines-finally-fallhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/extreme-car-dependency-unhappiness-americanshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214367X24002175?via%3Dihubhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/29/biden-spending-highways-public-transport-climate-crisishttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/us-cities-parking-lots-climate-walkabilityhttp://www.climatedesk.org/https://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/car-dependency-costs/
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