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Old Posted Feb 17, 2017, 9:49 PM
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And for cities over 200,000. I guess by this stage the figures are getting less meaningful, the small cities are often self-contained but these places often have huge amounts of suburbia beyond the city limits which aren't included here and would bring the average down. I looked for wider figures for whole built-up areas or MSAs but didn't find any....

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Old Posted Feb 17, 2017, 11:05 PM
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Incidentally, I had an interesting discussion with one of my roommates this morning. I share my pied-à-terre in downtown Sherbrooke with him, he alternates between Sherbrooke and Montreal.

He is carless, and he says Sherbrooke is a lot more walkable than Montreal.

At first sight, I was surprised, but he's correct: due to the fact our downtown isn't as urban as Montreal's, we have all of the following within a couple blocks: three supermarkets, several chain drugstores, tons of restaurants, tea salons and coffee shops, a movie theater, a public library, two medical clinics, one kinda-hospital (public health network), parks, and plenty of independent shops such as a tattoo parlor, an art supplies store, a record store, etc.

In no neighborhood of Montreal can you find a concentration of retail and services that covers all possible needs like this over a mere few blocks square.

He says in Sherbrooke he can do absolutely everything on foot very easily, while at his Montreal place (in a neighborhood way more dense than anything in Sherbrooke) he has to use the subway or the bus occasionally because not everything is always available within a few blocks.

I found that amusing, but he's actually correct...
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Old Posted Feb 18, 2017, 2:41 AM
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2 things:

1. any list of this sort for US cities that doesn't have NYC as #1 should probably be immediately tossed into a trash can.

all that said, the usual suspects are all at the top of the list, so whatever, it's probably not far off, but NYC not being #1 is a serious head-scratcher.
The biking factor hurt NYC. For those that say NYC should be above all else- Should biking be a factor in a list like this? If so, should it have less importance in weight to the other attributes?

NYC is not a renowned 'biking city' compared to others. I think most of us would agree on that point. Strip out the biking weight and NYC would be #1. But, I feel that biking is a factor that deserves equal weight to the others. It is an alternate transport method that meets the same goals.
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Old Posted Feb 18, 2017, 3:34 AM
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But, I feel that biking is a factor that deserves equal weight to the others. It is an alternate transport method that meets the same goals.
I don't understand this logic. Why would biking receive the same weight when you have like 50x more people taking transit? You are basically saying that a single bike rider is equal to 50 transit riders.

NYC would rank higher if it just had a few thousand more bike riders, yet millions fewer transit riders. If you shut down half the subway system, this would probably benefit NYC's ranking. Why not count all non-car trips equally?
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Old Posted Feb 18, 2017, 5:07 AM
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Of COURSE biking shouldn't count as much. I say that as a bicyclist.
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Old Posted Feb 18, 2017, 10:57 AM
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Yeah, clearly having a few bike lanes equals having the one of the world's most extensive metro systems :thinking:.

That list doesn't have people who take transit to work. Only people who walk from their homes to work or bike from their homes to work. Already a flawed study.
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I've never been overly impressed with transit in San Francisco. It's certainly not ranked #2 imo although it's better than a lot of cities. San Francisco is easy to navigate though because the city proper is so geographical small and compact. Everything is just a short and cheap cab ride unless you're crossing the bridges north, east or heading south on the peninsula.
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Old Posted Feb 18, 2017, 7:09 PM
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That list doesn't have people who take transit to work. Only people who walk from their homes to work or bike from their homes to work. Already a flawed study.
It's not flawed for that reason if I was trying to show places with most people walking/cycling to work, which I was.

If I had used the same lists to show how many people were using transit then yeah, major fail, so it's good that I wasn't doing that.
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Old Posted Feb 18, 2017, 8:05 PM
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And for cities over 200,000. I guess by this stage the figures are getting less meaningful, the small cities are often self-contained but these places often have huge amounts of suburbia beyond the city limits which aren't included here and would bring the average down. I looked for wider figures for whole built-up areas or MSAs but didn't find any....
I wonder if the cycling numbers would be higher for some of the cities if the cycling infrastructure was decent. I never rode a bike when I lived in Honolulu for that very reason. Fortunately my work commute was a 25 minute walk, but I know a lot of people with longer commutes who would have preferred cycling over the bus or driving. In a few parts, South Beretania Street has more one-way lanes than the freeway (and no bike lanes).
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