Michigan @midwest.social george @midwest.social 1y ago

More Michigan teens hit the brakes on learning to drive

www.bridgemi.com More Michigan teens hit the brakes on learning to drive | Bridge Michigan

The state’s decision to stop funding driver’s education and high private driver’s education costs may be contributing to many Michigan teens delaying getting their driver’s licenses.

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

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We don’t want cars, we want walkable cities
- Horse has already left that barn. We need public transportation to link our sprawl.
  
  Why not both?
  
  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.
  
  Horse transport was getting horrific before automobiles took off. NYC had rotting horse corpses everywhere and the streets were basically made of horseshit.
Online shopping, online work, online friends, online fun, even occasionally online school. Why do teens even need to leave the house?

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