A poll I just dug up on Partnership for New York City’s website says that most commuters in NYC who drive to work do so even though they know that taking mass transit would get them where they’re going as fast or faster.

The poll, which was conducted between March 12 and April 4, 2007, found that just 17 percent of drivers take their cars into Manhattan’s CBDs because of inaccessible or inconvenient mass transit options.

Additionally, only 10 percent of drivers say that they avoid mass transit because it is too slow. In a clear indication that saving time is not a primary reason for driving, 61 percent of drivers say that mass transit would be as fast or faster than driving. That view is shared by 66 percent of drivers from both Queens and Brooklyn.

Posted on Monday, July 9th, 2007. Filed under Cars.
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