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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most recent available Census ACS data (2019) shows the following stats on commuting by DC residents
127k drive alone
21k carpool or vanpool
133k take mass transit
51k walk
25k ride bikes, motorcycles, or take taxi
28k worked from home

Fewer should be driving alone, more should be taking mass transit and other methods.

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Talk about lying with statistics.

1. You can't focus on just D.C. residents because most drivers in the District live in Maryland and Virginia. Focusing solely on District residents is a really transparent way of undercounting the number of people who are driving.

2. Metro ridership is down 80 percent since the pandemic began. You should probably allocate most of those people to drivers.

3. What the hell is "drive alone"? So when I'm driving my kids somewhere or am with my spouse, I just don't count anywhere in the statistics?

4. Why the focus on commuting? I drive and most of them, it's not because I'm going to my job.

5. Why do these stats only add up to roughly half of D.C.'s population?

6. Allow me to break down that second to last category: 24,970 people in taxis, 200 people on bikes, 30 on motorcycles[/quote]

Most days at my office, pre-pandemic, there were about 30 bikes parked in the cage in the garage, so either we represented a huge share of the total bike commuters, or your estimate is off.[/quote]
In 2018, DDOTDC estimated that bicycles were 4.5% of modal share for DC residents who commuted. I find that number even too high.[/quote]

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