Transportation analytics specialist StreetLight Data has published new data showing that there has been a decrease in active travel in the USA since 2019, despite brief upticks during the pandemic.
If my own life is anything to go by, it has far more go do with lifestyle changes associated with covid-times. More home office, less in person shopping (which was often done on the way to/from work), walking to/from lunch and $transport_of_choice.
If you are not actively choosing to walk, then you are probably just walking less.
When it’s over 100 degrees outside for over three months, you don’t really feel like walking or riding your bike anywhere.
If my own life is anything to go by, it has far more go do with lifestyle changes associated with covid-times. More home office, less in person shopping (which was often done on the way to/from work), walking to/from lunch and $transport_of_choice.
If you are not actively choosing to walk, then you are probably just walking less.