Angelenos moving to transit-oriented development

Perhaps it is wishful thinking by assignment editors at the Los Angeles Times, but the paper goes into depth today about people moving closer to mass transit to avoid rising fuel prices:

Nationally, the average metropolitan household owns 1.6 cars; a household near a transit station averages 0.9 cars, according to the federal study. A separate recent survey, funded by the California Department of Transportation, found that residents near rail stations are five times more likely to commute by transit than the community average, according to report coauthor Richard Willson, chairman of Cal Poly Pomona's department of urban and regional planning.

By comparison, the gas savings from Hybrid development are miniscule.