- 56 percent of Michigan teenagers had driver’s licenses in 2021, down from 66 percent in 2000
- Reasons for the decline include being too busy to learn and high car ownership costs
- Cuts in driver’s ed funding may be disproportionately impacting Black and low-income teens
More Michigan teens hit the brakes on learning to drive
https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/more-michigan-teens-hit-brakes-learning-drive
5 Comments
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 3y
Banzai51@midwest.social · 3 pts · 3y
Horse has already left that barn. We need public transportation to link our sprawl.
DaSaw@midwest.social · 6 pts · 3y
Redevelopment can be walkable. It'll take a half century or two to get a lot of walkable areas, but we can get there over time.
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
Banzai51@midwest.social · 2 pts · 3y
One is extremely cheaper and more economically viable than the other. We're not going to magically go back to a time when everyone lived and worked within a small town with a cute main street with a handful of local stores. That vision of a walkable town never really existed for most.
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
randon31415@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Online shopping, online work, online friends, online fun, even occasionally online school. Why do teens even need to leave the house?