"Living without a car in a city is one thing, but "CarFree" in Maine? Thats impossible!" This collection of info-graphics demonstrate not only how car-free (or car-lite) travel can work in Maine, but also argues that it has few other alternatives!

1. Car Free Maine
Making the Connections
Social Networks Transit Networks 4
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Why Car Free?
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3. “Young people aren't simply swapping cars
for buses or bikes; they are choosing to own
and use other technology instead, such as
smartphones and tablet computers.”
-www.shareable.com 3
"Previous generations found freedom and “Carmakers' next problem:
flexibility through the car. But Generation Generation Y
People in their teens and twenties are more
Ys find their freedom and flexibility by interested in gadgets than cars”
staying connected to their friends, family
and workplaces through the various
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39970363/ns/business-autos/
information devices - like their laptops, or
iphones.
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"They can stay connected on a bus or a
train. They can bring the office with them.
They can bring their study with them. They ”
can bring their friends with them. They
can't if they're driving."
-- Peter Newman, Curtin University, Perth, Australia,
quoted in the West Australian, www.humantransit.org Article: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=144155

4. Monthly Transportation Costs Per Household
$1,000.00 ?!!!
$750.00
$500.00
Transportation Costs as
$250.00 Percentage of Yearly
Income
$0 50%
Waldoboro, Maine Brunswick, Maine
Portland Maine Boston Mass
40%
Transportation Costs
are making rural life
impossible for recent 30%
graduates and young,
working-age adults.
20%
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2000 Portland ME Region 2008
Data/Calculations from H and T Affordability Index, Center for Neighborhood Technology. www.htaindex.org

5. ■ Rising gas prices have cut nearly one-third of the potential growth in
real disposable income, which could have gone to creating more
economic activity within the economy, including the travel and tourism
industry -AAA Memorial Day 2011 Travel Forecast, IHS Global Insight May 19, 2011
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Average Family Transportation
Spending Budget in New England
Memorial Day Weekend 2011
■ Many Maine residents work
a second job solely to pay
for transportation to their Accomodations
15%
first job!
Auto Transportation
■ Most new job growth in Food and Beverages 39%
Maine has been in the 20%
Tourism/Service Sector Entertainment
9%
Shopping Other
■ Even these low-wage jobs 15% 3%
have been threatened by oil
dependency ■ AAA Memorial Day 2011
Travel Forecast, IHS Global
Insight May 19, 2011

6. Retail gasoline prices were almost 40% higher on Memorial Day 2011 than in 2010.
According to a recent study by the AAA-
The share of expected spending has moved significantly towards fuel costs at
the expense of shopping and entertainment. *
The graph below illustrates what this means for local communities.
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Less Money for Less Waitstaff Lost opportunities for
Downtown Artist’s, Musicians,
Hours and Tips and Creatives
Businesses
CO2
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Heavier Dependence Higher Carbon More Fossil Fuel
on Foreign Oil Emissions Consumption
Source- A Memorial Day 2011 Travel Forecast, Prepared for the American Automobile Association by IHS Global Insight May 19th 2011

7. The iPhone is the
New Prius 7
-www.shareable.net
For the price of a regular checkup and a
couple months of insurance, you can get a
smartphone, a transit card and a decent
bike and ditch the headaches and the endless
money drain that come with even a hybrid.[...] A pocket
computer complements the carless lifestyle splendidly,
and makes the switch easier than ever. One of the
greatest barriers to going carless has traditionally been the
with a smartphone
additional planning required, but
at the ready, the information required to $
navigate your route is always available.
http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-iphone-is-the-new-prius

8. The thought of living in a place which would require me to own a
car ever again gives me chills. Imagine being beholden to a 2,000
pound piece of metal which sucks 15% of your income every
month, makes you pudgy, and does bad things to the 8
environment.- CarFree Baltimore
Ages 55+
86% Under 35
Ages 35-44
73% 74%
Traveled to Maine in Personal Car 2010
The share of automobile miles driven by
people aged 21 to 30 in the U.S. fell to
➡ Millennials are choosing to drive less for 13.7% in 2009 from 18.3% in 2001 and
20.8% in 1995
environmental reasons.
The proportion of people aged 21-30 actually
➡ This group would drive even less if they increased from 13.3% to 13.9%
could find good alternative sources of Sources KRC
Research 10/2010,
transportation. 20-somethings went from driving a
Department of
disproportionate amount of the nation's Transportation
➡ Car ownership is prohibitively expensive highway miles in 1995 to under-indexing
for driving in 2009.
Federal Highway
for many in this age group. Administration's
National Household
October 2010 Study by KRC Research- Travel Survey
Census data

9. • In the City of Boston (not Boston Metro Region Commuters
including Cambridge, Newton
etc...) almost 92,000 people
do not own a vehicle.
• Almost 300,000 people 41%
commute to work via Public 50%
Transportation Regionwide
• More than half of all Transit 10%
Users are in the 24-44yr/old
Age Group
• 1/3 of users (100,000) use Car, truck, or van -- drove alone
Mobile Transit Apps* Car, truck, or van -- carpooled
Public Transportation
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Statistics from, 2005-2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
*Joshua Robin, Director of Innovation and Special Projects at the MBTA, http://transportationnation.org/2011/05/13/boston-
upwards-of-13-of-ridersM-use-transit-app-tools/)