Young Americans are just not into driving the way their elders are or did at their age. They are less likely to own cars or use cars . The drives they do are shorter. Meanwhile, the bus is looking good to them.
A new report confirms this trend and offers reasons that millennials —we're talking 14- to 31-year-olds — seem less drawn to the automobile thing. They're sure not singing car songs as the baby boomers did. No "Little Deuce Coupe," no "G.T.O.," no "Hot Rod Lincoln."
But the report, by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the Frontier Group, misses what I see as the biggest factor. Driving is no longer a coast down the great American open road. It's become a pain and a drag — drag as in "a boring or tiresome thing."
Read the rest of the piece at the Sun Journal website: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/columns-analysis/2014/10/18/froma-harrop-millennials-favoring-new-way-transportation/1604622#
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