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View Poll Results: Which of these Southern Cities has the most foot traffic?
Atlanta 52 59.09%
Houston 14 15.91%
Dallas 10 11.36%
Memphis 12 13.64%
Voters: 88. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-10-2011, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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And what about Nola, outside of the French Quarter are people REALLY out walking the whole city?
Have you REALLY been to New Orleans?
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Old 04-10-2011, 12:51 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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I've never been to San Antonio but I really really beg to differ that it beats out New Orleans.
a great deal of the foot traffic in SA are tourists, SA does have a more active downtown than most Texas Cities, but Tourists reign.

anyway, there is no way that SA's downtown has more foot traffic than NOLA's
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Old 04-10-2011, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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Is San Antonios downtown busier than Austins?
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Old 04-10-2011, 12:56 PM
 
Location: The City
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Think this is my favorite city in the South for Walking, so many cool things to see and all very compact


YouTube - Charleston South Carolina
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Old 04-10-2011, 12:59 PM
 
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Is San Antonios downtown busier than Austins?
Austin and SA should have about the same number of dtown residents, but SA has far greater tourists downtown, so yes SA's downtown is busier than Austin most days. But it is not THAT busy. and it is only in the Touristy areas- The Market, Alamo, Riverwalk.
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Old 04-10-2011, 01:03 PM
 
Location: NE Houston Texas
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I picked Memphis, and Atlanta would be second.

now i am basing this on proportional numbers.

outside of these, id say Austin, NO, and Miami.
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Old 04-10-2011, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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I picked Memphis, and Atlanta would be second.

now i am basing this on proportional numbers.

outside of these, id say Austin, NO, and Miami.
NOLA has significantly more tourists right? Including the cruise port and Saints home games, both of which Memphis doesn't have. Memphis has the Grizzlies home games and New Orleans has the Hornets home games.
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Old 04-10-2011, 01:43 PM
 
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I was kinda kidding about Miami being included. It wouldn't win.
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Old 04-10-2011, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Charlotte again!!
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Were smaller cities( New orleans, Charleston, Savannah,... etc..)... left out of the choices because they make the bigger cities on the poll look bad?
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Old 04-13-2011, 11:42 PM
 
Location: Richmond, VA, from Boston
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None of the above in the original, as most say. If you took metro-miami, miami might be competitive. But all the walking is on South Beach.

Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah clean the clock of all listed. But New Orleans is the winner by a landslide. San Antonio isn't even the busiest downtown in the hill country - a few tourists walking a few blocks along a canal doesn't count. The rest of the city is completely dead. Gruehne has a busier downtown.

When you think of it, it makes sense that the old cities with houses that touch each other have more walking than cities that were built for the automobile. No real shock
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