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The geography of transport choices in small areas of big American cities
Here are four census-tract-level maps showing the “modal split” of journeys to work by workers 16 and over during the 2015/2019 period in the central parts of the New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco areas. All these maps … Continue reading
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Waiting for traffic lights to change on the new Expo Line
When I was in Los Angeles three weeks ago, I naturally rode the new Expo Line between Santa Monica and downtown a couple of times. I can confirm that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a hit on its … Continue reading
Why aren’t there more pedestrians and transit users in high-density Westwood?
An important article by Mark R. Stevens in the January 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association suggests that an increase in population density leads only to a modest decrease in automobile use. The article is based … Continue reading
The extreme high density of the central portions of the New York area
Sprawl supporters like Wendell Cox and Robert Bruegmann (and many other writers) have gleefully pointed out the Census Bureau’s somewhat counterintuitive claim that the Los Angeles urban area is denser than New York’s. Anyone familiar with Los Angeles and New York would understand that … Continue reading