On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:58:29 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David
Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:15:35 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David
>> Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>
>> >Hatunen wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:55:58 -0700,
>> >> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
>> >[]
>> >> >I have a number of acquaintances living in Eastern cities (like New
>> >> >York) who use public transportation exclusively - some of them don't
>> >> >even OWN a car! (It has nothing to do with affluence - they just don't
>> >> >NEED one.)
>> >>
>> >> I'm sure some people live happily without cars, but someone owns
>> >> all those private cars parked on the streets of New York.
>> >
>> >They're a fraction of the population. Only a 5th of Manhattan residents
>> >own cars.
>>
>> That's a hell of a lot of people...
>
>It's still a fraction, which was the context I thought.
You deleted my original statement, "Even when public transit was
good, Americans chose the automobile if they could afford it. But
then, so do Europeans."
Now "if they could afford it" is an important condition here; a
lot of those non car-owning people in Manhattan can't afford it.
Now you say, "Only a 5th of Manhattan residents own cars". Please
clarify: who are these residents? ALL residents, from neonates to
centenarians, including those in nursing care homes?
Perhaps you mean just adults? For adults one car families
generally have only 50% car ownership.
Please clarify.
Of course, once many big-city residents can afford cars they may
move out of the big city to the suburbs.
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