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In your opinion what are the top 5 most interconnected/seamless CSA's in the nation? On my experiences I would say the LA and SF CSA's are tied at #1 for the most interconnected so what are the other 4?
I learned from City Data that CSA's have no real use in the real world. I heard that its a bunch of made up statistics that's arbitrarily decided by the US Census Bureau to make some areas feel better. Is there any validity to this claim?
Let's just be real on what all this "CSA" talk is directed at. It's mostly against SF Bay Area, and to a smaller extent, LA.
The Bay Area's TRUE CSA (or outward exurban areas that commute to a center and connected PURELY via commuter rates) would be San Joaquin and Stanislaus County (with a combined 1.3 million people and counting), considering that both counties aren't directly connected to the Bay via direct development because there are undevelopable hills between those counties and the Bay Area's core, but have plenty of commuters going into them. And no, this isn't a negligible number either, its actually quite statistically measurable.
At the height of rush hour, maybe around 6 PM, take a look at a traffic map. CA-4, I-580, and I-205 are some of the most traffic choked freeways in Northern California. It's pretty much the NorCal version of the IE.
However, if it helps everyone to sleep at night, SF and SJ are two different metros. Let's compare truncated SF to Riverside, Phoenix, and Seattle all the time. I'd be down for that.
DC/Baltimore? They don't even share the same media plus lots of undeveloped land in between the 2 metros
DC and Baltimore are one CSA... I don't see how one can get more interconnected than that.
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