John Wetmore Quoted in Article on Millennials' Driving Distinterest

John Wetmore was featured in an article in the Deseret News on October 25, 2013 titled, "Empty Roads: Car Love Fades as Millennials' Values Change." The article examines the reasons and the impact of lack of interest in driving on the part of millennials, the generation born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s.

The author turned to Wetmore, the long-time producer of the public-access program Perils for Pedestrians, for his views on the significant community-planning aspect of the car-shunning generation. Wetmore said,

"People are a lot more interested in having transportation choices than they were a couple of decades ago," he says. 

Companies are trying to attract millennials by locating in walkable urban areas, instead of fancy suburban high-tech parks, which has long been the trend.

"When people are passing each other on the sidewalk," he says, "there is serendipitous interaction that you don't have when driving by each other."