Justin Fox, Columnist

Not Driving to Work Is the Hot New High-End Job Perk

And the more money you make, the more likely you are to take public transportation.

September 18, 2017 at 4:30 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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Among the many, many things that the Census Bureau asks in the annual American Community Survey, the 2016 results of which were released last week, is this:

I had the privilege of filling out the survey for my family four or five years ago, and I am still overcome with smugness that I was able to put my "X" next to "bicycle" (as I remember, it had been a brisk, sunny spring week in Cambridge, Massachusetts). Not many people do that! The Census Bureau estimates that just 0.57 percent of U.S. workers commuted primarily by bicycle last year, which is up from 0.45 percent in 2006 but still ... not much. The way the great majority of Americans gets to work is and has long been in a car, truck or van, usually driving alone.