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Well living closer to where one works is a good thing. It's a luxury though because usually business centers are either surrounded by expensive neighborhoods or dangerous ones.
I don't know living near a strip mall is nice but I'll bet those walking wish they were in a car during the summer. I remember when I was 20 walking a mile and a half to work during a 100 degree heat wave. That summer sucked. But what can you do? I eventually stopped shopping so much and started saving and eventually got a car.
There are plenty of walkable cities in humid places; some even more hotter than Houston.
Odd that Seattle is ranked #2. Seattle has a large and heavily used bus system, not a lot of room for roads, and is generally a green city. As someone mentioned, probably has more to do with higher incomes.
.......wait, I thought nobody in New York City drives?
They have as much cars on the road as car/sprawl capital Los Angeles!
I would wager that a fair percentage of cars counted in New York are taxicabs and buses. There are MANY native New Yorkers who have never driven a car, much less own one.
I would wager that a fair percentage of cars counted in New York are taxicabs and buses. There are MANY native New Yorkers who have never driven a car, much less own one.
Well I'm thinking that 10,000,000 number is for the entire metropolitan area not just NYC proper. Outside of the city people I'm sure still need their cars just like with any suburb.
Odd that Seattle is ranked #2. Seattle has a large and heavily used bus system, not a lot of room for roads, and is generally a green city. As someone mentioned, probably has more to do with higher incomes.
Well in the city. When I was Seattle I used the bus and was just fine but that's in the city. Also I drove a rental car for part of the trip. Parking sucked but other than that having a car wasn't a hassle. Also higher incomes probably have something to do with it too. Seattle is one of the most educated cities in the country so with that education comes better jobs that afford one the ability to buy a car. I imagine just like I mentioned for New York that outside the city proper people drive their cars just like any other suburb.
I think traffic is worse in some cities because they don't have large secondary roads. I can't speak for Houston but secondary roads in Atlanta & Seattle are much smaller than they are in older cities such as Chicago or St. Louis. Older cities had very established cores before the invention of the interstate highway.
They also really lack public transportation, so I don't know why fewer people would have cars. It's a very auto-centric city.
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Houston does not lack public transportation. Houston lacks extensive rail. There is a big difference. There is a huge difference. There is a monumental difference. Houston's bus system (METRO) runs extensively through the inner loop, the north side and the west side of town. In the 'burbs, the bus system is lacking, and via bus you can only really get from a specific 'burb into downtown. It sucks in the 'burbs, but so do many other things.
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Houston does not lack public transportation. Houston lacks extensive rail. There is a big difference. There is a huge difference. There is a monumental difference. Houston's bus system (METRO) runs extensively through the inner loop, the north side and the west side of town. In the 'burbs, the bus system is lacking, and via bus you can only really get from a specific 'burb into downtown. It sucks in the 'burbs, but so do many other things.
Considering how high of a pedestal Houston is placed on by posters on this board, you would expect it to have a very good transit system. Just having a bus doesn't make a city have good public transportation. A city like that should have rail too. It's behind in other cities when it comes to that.
.......wait, I thought nobody in New York City drives?
They have as much cars on the road as car/sprawl capital Los Angeles!
The streets are PACKED with cars, yet the odds are that most of the people you know don't drive. I have to say, it's not only our great public transportation, but the fact that parking is so difficult, and that everyone is already out there driving, that a lot of people just decide to take a train or a bus instead. Of course, I'm highly over-simplifying the process, but this does contribute to it.
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