Followup on Trans. Costs: Mt. Washington v. Palmdale, CA (Pittsburgh: neighborhood, buses)

[BrianTH]

This is an interesting commentary on the recent study regarding transportation costs. It expands the issue to the concept of location efficiency in general, but perhaps most interesting for our purposes here, it uses a contrast between Palmdale, CA and our own Mt. Washington to make its point:

Transportation For America » Reconsidering how we measure housing affordability by including transportation costs

Regardless of what you feel about the general issue, I think Pittsburgh is well-positioned if people start taking seriously the notion of location efficiency.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

This is an interesting commentary on the recent study regarding transportation costs. It expands the issue to the concept of location efficiency in general, but perhaps most interesting for our purposes here, it uses a contrast between Palmdale, CA and our own Mt. Washington to make its point:

Transportation For America » Reconsidering how we measure housing affordability by including transportation costs

Regardless of what you feel about the general issue, I think Pittsburgh is well-positioned if people start taking seriously the notion of location efficiency.

If gas prices reach what they were in summer 2008 (which I think is unfortunately inevitable). Pittsburgh and other cities in the north will have a big advantage over the totally car obsessed cities of the south.

[BrianTH]

Yep, and cheap natural gas for heating (and maybe buses and electricity) wouldn't hurt either.