There are a couple of German statistics I saw today which are worth talking about....from local Wiesbaden news:
1. Number of German cars on the road presently (from entire country)....as of January 2021: 48.2 million. Note, that's 14-percent MORE than a decade ago.
2. Percentage of Germans walk to work? 7-percent.
3. Percentage of Germans who ride a bike to work? 10-percent.
4. Percentage of Germans who ride public transportation (bus and tram) to work? 13-percent.
5. Percentage of Germans who drive a car to work? 68-percent.
6. There are 108 cars for every 100 households....meaning the second car situation (compared against a decade ago) is increasing...not decreasing.
Selling the public on public transportation? In general, it only works in highly urbanized cities (Frankfurt or Hamburg, good examples of this). In towns where it's just 100k residents....I would vouch that selling public transportation is extremely hard.
I would also suggest that the bike rider group probably has expanded their radius (if anyone would do a survey on this) and a fair number don't mind biking ten kilometers (one-way) to work.
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