[artplumber]

Originally posted by svandamme
poorest people drive the most ??!??!
you smoking something?
the poorest people don't drive cars
they live in cardboard boxes
and are unemployed

Occasionally I have been known to have a Macanudo..., but to answer your question, the working poor do drive the most. Homeless people are a vastly smaller number than those who are "lower class" and do work.

Public transport has always been difficult in the US because we have (or had) space. That's what we like. We are very individualistic and will not go somewhere on someone else's schedule. It's part of the american psyche. Even in states which have very liberal political records, it is difficult to find funding & votes for a public trans system. About the only really successful systems are NY and SF, (and maybe Chicago - don't know too much about there). Look at Washington state: the geography sucks for multiple freeways in the urbanized areas around the Puget Sound, they usually vote Dem, and they have been trying for 3 decades to get a commuter train system into Seattle. LA with hundreds of miles of Freeway in gridlock from 5 am to 10pm finally is getting some kind of commuter train system, but it's pretty limited and won't run after like 9pm (WTF?).

Furthermore, here transportation is a religion, because your car says a great deal about who you are. (It's why I got the raw turbo)