Planetizen Newswire
Keep up with essential planning news and commentary, delivered to your inbox every Monday and Thursday.
Faced With Infamously Bad Traffic, More Atlanta Residents Choose to Telecommute
More people are telecommuting in Atlanta, keeping cars of the road, but the percentages of people driving alone to work, taking transit, and walking or biking to work are holding steady.
The Atlanta Regional Commission recently published an analysis of commuting patterns in the region, analyzing a decade's worth of Census data and finding very little change in driving alone to work and public transit commutes.
"About three out of four metro Atlanta residents drove alone to work in 2017, unchanged from 2008," according to David Wickert. And "[a]bout 3.5 percent of workers took public transportation to their job – about the same as a decade earlier."
One area experiencing a notable increase was telecommuting. "In 2008, about 5.7 percent of residents worked from home. By 2017, that had jumped to 7.3 percent – or an estimated 208,000 people," according to Wickert.
Paul Donzky also provides detailed coverage of the new study, in an article written for the Atlanta Regional Commission's "What's Next ATL" website.
Published on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 in
Topics
- 'A Strange, Second-Wave Gentrification' in San Francisco
- Houston Just as Expensive as New York City, Study Says
- Details of Austin's Big 'Project Connect' Transit Plan Emerge
- Opportunity Zones Under Investigation by Treasury Inspector General
- Cuomo's LaGuardia AirTrain Plan has a High-Profile Skeptic
- Overcoming the Obstacles of Land Use for Renewable Energy
- U.S. Transit Ridership Growing Again
- Wyoming Legislation Would Add Tolls to Interstate 80
- Ranking the Climate Impact of Transportation in the 100 Largest U.S. Metro Areas
- Oregon Could Trim Opportunity Zones Tax Break
- Opinion: L.A. Metro Bus Plan Must Put Riders First
- Montreal Vacancies Leave Commercial Corridors Struggling
- Fewer Baby Boomers Choose Urban Lifestyles Than Previous Generations
- A New Transportation Vision for Texas Not Focused on Cars?
- More Space for Buses and Mixed Use Planned for Busy Northern Virginia Corridor
- The World's Streets Are Becoming Less Connected, Study Shows
- The Final Major Holdout in North America Finally Welcomes Uber and Lyft
- Transit Ridership Increases in Anchorage After Decade of Decline
- Dog Parks Are Everywhere, but Where Did They Start?
- Virginia Upzoning and Accessory Dwelling Unit Bills Killed Quickly in Committee
