Worksheet 3 Answers
Who's driving what and going where?

(Transportation trends in Canada)

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   1. Of workers that drive to their job, 73.8% are the drivers and 6.9% are passengers. We can deduce that around 14% of workers are carpooling (7% passengers, and the other 7% of drivers that are driving them). This means that 67% of workers (74% minus the 7% that are carpooling) are driving in a car by themselves. There is a lot of room to 'green' those who still want to drive to work by making carpooling more attractive (e.g. priority lanes on highways)!
   2. Title: Usual mode of transportation for travel to work
      
      

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2. Modes of transportation for travel to work
   1. Public transportation: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa
      These are in mega-city, high-density urban areas in which many people live in the core and surrounding suburbs. Also, they are all important to the Canadian business and tourism sectors. For these reasons, the local governments (with help from the provincial governments) invest a significant sum into public transport, even providing services to the suburbs, such as the GoTrain in Toronto.
   2. Walking: Kingston, Victoria, Halifax
      These are mid-sized but still large cities. They are also 'university towns' in which many students without cars would likely distort the number of people walking to work. (School counts as work for students who answered this transportation question.) These cities also have relatively dense downtown cores in which many people can easily walk to work.
   3. Biking: Victoria, Saskatoon, Kingston
      Again, these cities are mid-sized but still large and have large college/university student populations that would be more likely to use a bike to get to school. Kingston and Victoria show up in both the walking and biking categories and we can perhaps deduce that many of their residents live within a few kilometres of where they work. Perhaps roads in these cities also have suitably wide shoulders or bike lanes to make biking a safe and convenient choice for commuters.