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Car ownership keeps dropping in Seattle (www.seattlebikeblog.com)
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About 74,000 households in Seattle are car-free, making up more than 20% of all Seattle households. A modern high point for the city’s car-free household rate, Seattle now ranks 9th among large U.S. cities by car-free household rate and 2nd for large U.S. cities west of the Mississippi behind only San Francisco [...].

Renters lead the way with 1 in 3 rental households having no cars, a strong data point to support easing or eliminating expensive parking requirements for new housing developments. By contrast, only 5% of owned households were car-free [...]

The data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s household survey, so there is some statistical noise especially at the census tract level...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well parking is crazy there and the mass transit works so why not. Need a car for a project or weekend? Just rent one. Less hassles than paying for license, insurance, registration and having to do maintenance.

The limitations are that you really can't have friends or family that are not mass transit connected. But who cares.