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The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway
When I was in Jersey City last month, I naturally noticed the recreational trail along the Hudson. A little research revealed that it’s part of an entity called the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway that’s planned to run between Bayonne and … Continue reading
Parts of Jersey City become a “gold coast”
Anyone who’s been on the Hudson waterfront of Manhattan over the last thirty or so years has noticed that Jersey City has been growing a serious skyline. The buildings are generally unremarkable, and the highest are nowhere near as tall … Continue reading
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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New York’s “open streets” vs. Chicago’s “shared streets”
I’ve reported in previous blog posts (here and here) on Chicago’s “shared streets” (which are comparable to what are called “slow streets” in most other cities). These are streets open only to local motor-vehicle traffic and intended chiefly for pedestrian … Continue reading
New York’s pedestrian infrastructure gets even better
The New York area famously accounts for something like 40% of all U.S. transit trips. New York may do even better when it comes to pedestrian trips, but these are a great deal harder to measure. New York’s walkscore (89.2) ranks first, but … 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