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What cities do you think are the most urban and/or easily navigable without a mass transit rail system(MRT) or light rail system?
Think about:
-Walkability
-Traffic
-Parking
-Street Density(Amount of people walking on the streets)
-Bus Transit
-Airport
-Bike-Friendliness
-Uber/Lyft/Taxi(if you want to include this)
I've visited Charleston, SC for a couple of days, & it's more urban than I thought it would be. Even though the population density is around 1,200/Sq.mi, it felt surprisingly compact, dense & walkable. Plus it had a decent bus service.
What cities do you think are the most urban and/or easily navigable without a mass transit rail system(MRT) or light rail system?
Think about:
-Walkability
-Traffic
-Parking
-Street Density(Amount of people walking on the streets)
-Bus Transit
-Airport
-Bike-Friendliness
-Uber/Lyft/Taxi(if you want to include this)
I've visited Charleston, SC for a couple of days, & it's more urban than I thought it would be. Even though the population density is around 1,200/Sq.mi, it felt surprisingly compact, dense & walkable. Plus it had a decent bus service.
This likely due to the annexation of unincorporated areas into the city limits. It is 109 square miles with about 135,000 people.
I have no idea where it ranks with other cities, but I just want to mention Milwaukee.
Smaller city with easy North/South oriented travel. Traffic/parking issues are non existent. Well laid out neighborhoods that are fairly self contained with dense housing, street parking, and amenities. 794 makes it easy to jump from downtown to the south neighborhoods (Bayview mainly) within 5 mins. I grew up there, but I never realized how good I had it until I left and lived in other places.
What cities do you think are the most urban and/or easily navigable without a mass transit rail system(MRT) or light rail system?
Think about:
-Walkability
-Traffic
-Parking
-Street Density(Amount of people walking on the streets)
-Bus Transit
-Airport
-Bike-Friendliness
-Uber/Lyft/Taxi(if you want to include this)
I've visited Charleston, SC for a couple of days, & it's more urban than I thought it would be. Even though the population density is around 1,200/Sq.mi, it felt surprisingly compact, dense & walkable. Plus it had a decent bus service.
I think you would have to set some parameter on size
Charleston is very compact and walkable in the DT core but its not very large. But a great walking city and oh so very quaint. Love walking around Charleston, the architecture is fantastic as well
of larger places its tough to say as some have minimal rail like a Pittsburgh or Cinci
I think you would have to set some parameter on size
Charleston is very compact and walkable in the DT core but its not very large. But a great walking city and oh so very quaint. Love walking around Charleston, the architecture is fantastic as well
of larger places its tough to say as some have minimal rail like a Pittsburgh or Cinci
Pittsburgh has the T -- light rail that goes from the north side, through downtown as a subway, and about 24 miles through the southern neighborhoods and suburbs of the city over two lines. It definitely has a light rail system -- its been there a long time, and its pretty well used. Pittsburgh also has 3 busways with dedicated highways and ROWs, act basically the same as light rail, in other directions through the city and suburbs. So Pittsburgh definitely is not applicable to this thread.
Cincy has a new small streetcar downtown only, with low ridership, mostly weekend as opposed to commuters. it would not be considered a MRT or light rail. Completely different systems. So Cincy would be applicable for this thread, based on the OPs criteria.. I think there are a few other cities with new streetcars also, can't remember offhand (Kansas City?) but they would apply also. also New Orleans as someone above said, but their streetcar system is fairly extensive and well established ridership I think, so maybe the OP can chime in if they think it should apply here.
Providence RI certainly merits a mention. Overall the city carries a very high Walk Score of 79, with many sections scoring in the high 80s and low to mid 90s.
Honolulu only city to make top 10 w/o a rail system.
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