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Gen Z is choosing not to drive
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I pay about 12-20 dollars for a trip to or from the airport in my city. Let's be quite generous and say I only need to take a trip like that once a week, and all my other needs can be met via public transportation.
That's comically untrue in the Midwest but it holds true in places like Baltimore at least for some.
It would take 9 months of similar rides to equal what I spend on my car in a single month, including the loan, gas, and insurance.
Even if I took an under to and from work every single day which incidentally is about the same as a trip to the airport, it would cost half of what I put in to my car.
That's true for me, but probably not everyone. I have a newer, upper mid range car that's not great on gas mileage. And of course, I need my car a lot more frequently than just the ten trips a week. But there's a string argument to be made in cities where public transit is even halfway decent for ditching a car all together and ubering when you need to get somewhere the bus doesn't stop.