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South Floridians love their cars.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| November 01, 2002 | Dorschner, John | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MIAMI _ If you want to know why we have so much traffic, all you have to do is look at the statistics, which show that we residents of South Florida love our cars _ and we love driving alone.

Travel logs collected from 5,100 households by the Department of Transportation in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties show that 73 percent of us get around by driving a car _ and that the next most popular mode of transportation is being a passenger in someone else's car.

In the three-county area, walking (4 percent) and school buses (2 percent) are more popular than transit buses or car pooling (1 percent each). And the Metrorail? It doesn't even reach the ...

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