- 62 percent?
- 35 percent?
- 27 percent?
Previous surveys had indicated it was 62 percent. It turns out: not so much.
In fact, 35 percent less.
Solo driving accounted for only 27 percent of trips in 2014 … with carpooling accounting for another 21 percent. Those two types of trips are what the agency counts as “private auto” trips.
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From Streetsblog: New Data Shows Most Trips in SF Are Made Without a Private Automobile.
More than 50 percent of trips in San Francisco are made without a private automobile — and it’s been that way for at least three years, according to travel survey results presented at an SFMTA Board meeting today [PDF, page 18]. Last year, 52 percent of trips in the city were made by transit, walking, biking, car-share, taxi, or ride hailing services like Lyft and Uber. …
The SF County Transportation Authority reported in November that car traffic in downtown San Francisco is dropping, and Census data has shown that 88 percent of households added to SF between 2000 and 2012 were car-free.
