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Re: Seeking advice about "selling" the idea of sidewalks
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Jym Dyer
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Oct 24, 2009 10:14 PDT
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| | One figure that always hits home to me is the statistic that
about 30% of people in a community do not have direct access
to automobiles. I don't know the exact numbers but know
they're out there.
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=v= This varies quite a bit. 4 of New York City's 5 boroughs
have the highest population density in the U.S. and a majority
of their households are carfree. (N.Y.C. is 65% carfree on
average, but that's with a 5th borough that's not so carfree.)
=v= The 5th highest density in the country is San Francisco,
which matches your figure of 30% carfree households*. If 30%
is a guideline even for communities with less density, well,
that's a testament to the dysfunction of S.F.'s transportation
alternatives (and also its potential).
<_Jym_>
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* The 2000 Census shows fewer S.F. carfree households, but it
was conducted during the anomalous dot-com economic bubble,
which attracted a car-driving population bubble. Both of
these bubbles have burst, so I suspect that the city's back
to its normal level of carfreedom (although, unfortunately,
a *lot* of garages were built during the bubble).
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