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Is downtown Philly as busy as Boston and DC during daytime hours?
IMO no, but these are each close and in the same tier honestly with regards to daytime pace/foot traffic. Each have pretty solid pace 12-14hrs out of the day.
2 year ago On a Reddit DC thread this question was posed: is Boston a lot like DC? The mos popular answer, on the DC thread -was :
“Boston has a more concentrated downtown area than DC and is more urban. DC is prettier throughout. They're both east coast cities, so about as similar as any other east coast city.” 157 likes, in DC.
Anecdotally DC never feels more crowded than Boston a lord of that is due to its physical layout. Wide streets and block long buildings.simply not a ton of people going in and out of buildings on the street. Except lunch time.
I also think with 700k people and the nations most congested traffic it goes without saying Boston’s day time population is well over 1 million....
Simply put, DC crushes anywhere in the nation not named NYC in mega-commute. It’s one thing to say a city feels a certain size due to buildout etc, but the amount of people in DC and it’s inner core during business hours is extremely bolstered by commuters from as far as the Philadelphia MSA in Cecil County, MD.
IMO no, but these are each close and in the same tier honestly with regards to daytime pace/foot traffic. Each have pretty solid pace 12-14hrs out of the day.
Guessing youre being sarcastic..Make university city (which currently isn’t experiencing even close to Cambridge’s growth) and west Philadelphia different cities from Philadelphia and you’d understand
Simply put, DC crushes anywhere in the nation not named NYC in mega-commute. It’s one thing to say a city feels a certain size due to buildout etc, but the amount of people in DC and it’s inner core during business hours is extremely bolstered by commuters from as far as the Philadelphia MSA in Cecil County, MD.
There are people who commute even further than that. The GM at my last job lives in NJ. My wife went to job interview at Loyola college in Baltimore, and she said the guy who interviewed her commutes from NJ daily. I also know someone who works in Baltimore 5 days a week who lives in Boston, and has been doing so for well over 10 years... I kid you not.
Guessing youre being sarcastic..Make university city (which currently isn’t experiencing even close to Cambridge’s growth) and west Philadelphia different cities from Philadelphia and you’d understand
Why do Boston posters get to include Cambridge and Somerville in their core, but we can't even add U City.
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There are people who commute even further than that. The GM at my last job lives in NJ. My wife went to job interview at Loyola college in Baltimore, and she said the guy who interviewed her commutes from NJ daily. I also know someone who works in Baltimore 5 days a week who lives in Boston, and has been doing so for well over 10 years... I kid you not.
Oh I've heard all kinds of one off stories, like NYC to DC commute etc. I was just going with the more realistic...Boston to Baltimore sounds like someone just needs to get up and move outta town.
Mega commutes aren't rare in Boston either. There are 4 states in our CSA and you have some commuters from Downeast Maine/Portland. But i do think DC traffic in NoVA is just unbearable.
Funny enough, post COVID-19, DC will probably be the only city that doesn’t drop substantially in daytime workers because of the Federal government which isn’t going to allow mass telework. I think cities are about to really see a change to telework in the private sector which will have a huge impact on these numbers going forward all over the nation.
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