{"id":50339666,"date":"2006-08-06T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=50339666"},"modified":"2006-08-06T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T15:14:26","slug":"fewer-americans-like-to-drive-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=50339666","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Americans like to drive, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"66\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/20060806151426768_1.gif\" alt=\"\">From Pew Research Center:<br \/>\nToday 69% of American drivers say they like to drive, down from 79% in a 1991 Gallup survey. And just 23% say they consider their car &quot;something special &#8212; more than just a way to get around,&quot; barely half of the 43% who felt this way in 1991.<br \/>\nThe biggest reason for the cooling of the affair isn&#8217;t the recent spike in gas prices. Rather, it appears to be the result of a longer term trend &#8212; the growing hassle of traffic congestion, according to a Pew Research Center telephone survey among a nationally representative sample of 1,182 adults (including 1,048 drivers) conducted from June 20 through July 16, 2006.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/316\/americans-and-their-cars-is-the-romance-on-the-skids\">https:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/316\/americans-and-their-cars-is-the-romance-on-the-skids<\/a>oldId.20060806151426768<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pew Research Center: Today 69% of American drivers say they like to drive, down from 79% in a 1991 Gallup survey. And just 23% say they consider their car &quot;something special &#8212; more than just a way to get around,&quot; barely half of the 43% who felt this way in 1991. The biggest reason &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=50339666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fewer Americans like to drive, survey shows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50339666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50339666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50339666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50339666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50339666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}