By Diane Brown | Scottsdale Independent
In a recent report, the Arizona PIRG Education Fund documents that between 2006 and 2013 Arizona saw an 11.8 percent decline in annual vehicle miles traveled per capita and Arizonans increasingly look to public transportation to get around.
While some might assume that driving will rebound as the economy improves, many factors show that the shift away from driving and to other modes of transportation is a trend that is likely to be long-lasting. Consider the following: