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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by ghaff on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:35PM (#14068274)
That may be true, but there are also a lot of sweeping generalizations about how the US is totally different from every other developed country when it comes to car ownership.

In fact, the percentage of households that own cars in the US is not that different from either other wealthy Western democracies, Japan, or South Korea. (China and Russia are both much lower.)

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/16/car-bike-or-...

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by yongjik on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:06PM (#14068429)
A more relevant metric would be how often the car is used: there's a difference between having a family car you use for weekend trips and occasional trip to Costco, and having to drive your kids to school every morning.
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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by hexane360 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:42PM (#14069206)
And limiting our measurements to cities. Otherwise it becomes a measurement of "who has more rural and suburban areas" instead of "who uses more public transit in urban areas".
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