Comments on: Commuting trends in Pittsburgh: How do we rank?

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By: meaculpa

meaculpa — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:09:36 +0000

Very informative, thanks Erok. I am going to link to this page & send it around, lotsa grist for the mill.

By: erok

erok — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:05:24 +0000

Remember, this data is compiling how residents of a given city travel to work, not how people who work in a given city travel to work. your two examples, nyc and DC, also rank as #1 and #2 respectively for the category of “no car available.” given that the traffic is terrible in those cities, it indicates that the traffic is mostly from non-city residents, from the ‘burbs. this is probably why nyc was able to even get a conversation going about congestion pricing.

By: gimpPAC

gimpPAC — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:49:38 +0000

hmm, I noticed that even though we are down in the lowest 8 cities to drive solo, New York and Washington D.C. are the lowest…and they still seem to have the most traffic density problems. You would think that this data would mean quite the opposite?