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RE: Seeking advice about "selling" the idea of sidewalks
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Michael M. Moule PE, PTOE
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Oct 24, 2009 11:57 PDT
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The 30% statistic nationally is about people not households. In other words,
30% of people don't drive; mostly made up of children under 16,
approximately 20% of all people over 65, and people who can't afford to
drive.
Michael M. Moule, PE, PTOE
President
Livable Streets, Inc.
400 N. Ashley Drive, Suite 1010
Tampa, FL 33602
P. 813.254.7708
F. 813.354.4422
mou-@livablestreetsinc.com
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From: Jym Dyer [mailto:jy-@econet.org]
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:15 PM
To: walkable
Subject: Re: Walkable: Seeking advice about "selling" the idea of
sidewalks
| | 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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