DONNIENARC0 t1_iyibre2 wrote on December 1, 2022 at 4:51 PM

Could definitely do better, but I'm a little surprised at how well we stack up already. I'm not intimately familiar with many of these places, but I wouldn't have guessed we were ahead of cities like Tampa, Denver, Austin, etc.

spaceribs OP t1_iyiep7a wrote on December 1, 2022 at 5:10 PM

I think it's due to having great advocacy for public transit and bikes, which we should celebrate. Complete streets certainly haven't been applied consistently, but it is on our books, and I bet those other metro areas don't have anything like that implemented.

YoYoMoMa t1_iyig3f2 wrote on December 1, 2022 at 5:19 PM

>but I wouldn't have guessed we were ahead of cities like Tampa, Denver, Austin, etc.

Cities with a history of libertarian politics that grew extremely quickly become clusterfucks.

todareistobmore t1_iyjj2yr wrote on December 1, 2022 at 9:29 PM

Baltimore has a much higher percentage of people who don't own cars than any of those cities (here are 2015 numbers, at least). Some of it's density but a lot of it's poverty.

[deleted] t1_iyk7wag wrote on December 2, 2022 at 12:26 AM

Austin may be weird, but big oil still has an iron grip on that state. Big fans of “one more lane” mentality.