August 19, 2011 | 3:55 PM | By

“Nearly 200,000 D.C households survive without any cars”

Around 10 percent of local residents get by without cars–all the more reason to maintain and protect public transportation. Over 90% of those “zero-vehicle households” are near a bus or metro stop:


The majority of these households have low incomes (69%), live in the city (57%) rather than a suburb, and are black (41%, with white people comprising 29% and Hispanics making up 20%). Most of these households (56%) rely on transit to commute to work.

— www.tbd.com

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