The new Davis-Hibbits Metro Survey is a reaffirmation of what we continue to hear: Metro-area residents want transit, biking and walking to increasingly replace automobile travel, by a two to one margin. But, by 55% to 44% they don't think that it's likely to happen (Slide 28).

7 out of 8 Metro residents also think that transportation costs will become a bigger part of their household budget. This may indeed be the case, as transportation costs have started to outpace housing for some metro areas' household budgets, as more and more families are forced to adopt a "one car per person" budget because adequate choices like biking and transit don't exist.

The message is clear: Metro needs to focus its transportation investments away from projects like building new roads (46% of survey residents thought was an urgent high priority) to investments that protect air quality (74% thought was urgent and high priority) and protect existing neighborhoods (64%).

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