Baby Boomers are accepting older. Their apparition isn't what it acclimated to be, and their acknowledgment time is slowing. Even if they've been affectionate drivers all their lives, their primary agency of accepting about adeptness alpha to about-face abroad from the car. Which is abundant account for accessible alteration in the U.S.
The AARP has appear a new "livability index" that studies what Americans 50 and earlier are searching for in the places they accept to live. The achievement is that cities can use the advice to advice architecture communities which are added acquiescent to crumbling residents, which will end up getting a growing allotment of our society. The abstracts includes advice from Boomers about the affectionate of neighborhoods they wish to reside in and how they wish to collaborate with their community.
And what's the one affair that Baby Boomers a lot of wish aural a mile of their homes? A bus stop.
It makes sense: Although a grocery abundance or pharmacy can advice Boomers accomplish their circadian needs, a bus stop signals freedom—the adeptness to admission the city-limits and all it has to action after a car. In fact, transit-accessibility and walkability are two of the better considerations according to the survey: A lot of non-drivers told the AARP that they accurately confused to a association that was pedestrian-friendly.
This is actual acceptable account for alteration systems. While it's been apparent that Americans are benumbed alteration in greater numbers, the allotment of the citizenry that uses alteration is boilerplate abreast the numbers that we acclimated to see in the 1950s (back if these Baby Boomers were just babies). Alteration systems charge to see an access in ridership in adjustment to add and advance services, and defended the all-important allotment to expand. Added and added Baby Boomers—the better accomplice of Americans—are boring affective into the "transit-dependent" class as they age. Not alone that, they adopt buses over added big-ticket subways (as you'll notice, Train/Subway makes the list, but abundant added down). Cities would be astute to advance in their bus lines.
As they get older, Baby Boomers could bear the numbers that abounding alteration systems need to break profitable. It aswell agency Baby Boomers accept an abominable lot in accepted with addition bearing that's turning abroad from driving: Millennials. [AARP via Atlantic Cities]
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