This is not so much about which cities are walkable, but a survey of how people actually do get around there. Big difference. I've browsed the dataset and Auckland rates as less "walkable" than Kuala Lumpur. Yes, Kiwis do get around by car a lot, but Auckland is still a perfectly pleasant, walkable city. On the other hand, I've never been in a more pedestrian-hostile place than KL.
The most, and least, walkable cities
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#12Interactive visualization with free access: https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/
The difference between the US and even its northern neighbor, Canada, seems stark.
That being said, how does Manhattan have a greater percentage of car trips than NYC? Are hundreds of thousands of people taking Taxis and Ubers?
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#13The city/cities I have lived in would not be considered walkable by many people. The thing is if you want walkable you pick your location in the city to make it walkable for you. I have always been able to find a place that can cover a large % of my trips by foot. I love cars and still own them, I just prefer to run my errands on foot.
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#14Walking, scootering or taking transit to work became of considerable less interest to me once I became fully remote. What is interesting to me now is whether my children will able to walk to school and back, since that one is not remote, and I hope it won't be.
Counter-point: walking and taking public transit became considerably _more_ interesting for me once I became fully remote. However, I do live in an area with walkable amenities (coffee shops, grocery stores, etc).
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#15Walking, scootering or taking transit to work became of considerable less interest to me once I became fully remote. What is interesting to me now is whether my children will able to walk to school and back, since that one is not remote, and I hope it won't be.
Counter-point: walking and taking public transit became considerably _more_ interesting for me once I became fully remote. However, I do live in an area with walkable amenities (coffee shops, grocery stores, etc).
Sure, but unfortunately, the linked website doesn't ask about that.
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#16I don't think that an overall statistic works very well for this.
I live in London and I probably do split my time very roughly 1/3 ish across the three modes as stated.
But that's because I'm doing different things.
The tube is used to go into town, meet up with urban living friends, go to museums, visit specialist high end shops.
The car is used to go to larger stores like the supermarket, big shopping centres, DIY stores, to go out of town, go to the golf range, visit friends and family.
Walking gets me to the corner shop, to local friends, to the park, the last mile on public transport.
It's very walkable/cyclable, I just don't spend my life in a 1-5 mile radius.
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#17I noticed Utrecht in the third place. Having worked there, I can agree with that. However, with Utrecht being so expensive to live in I experienced that most people that work in Utrecht, don't live there. They live in 'affordable' smaller cities and villages nearby. And with industrial estates like Papendorp and Science Park having sub-par public transit, those people often take the car. If you live in a place like C…
Utrecht is fantastic and even if you get to the city by car, the most convenient is to drop it in the park and ride outside for 7 euros a day including public transport to the center.
All cities should have a downtown where the only vehicles are taxis and buses and some neighbour.
The neighbourhoods around the center are also designed in a way that crossing them by car is possible but very inconvenient. Going from Lombok to Wittevrouwen is always around 10 minutes by bike but can be more than 30 by car during busy hours.
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#18Correction (May 13th, 2024): A previous version of this article stated that two Spanish cities made the top ten. In fact, it was four. Sorry.
lol, I see what you did there
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#19Can someone summarize this for us? even with the archive link I can't see the data
My take-aways were:
- Americans drive
- Non-European countries walk / transit
- Very large cities aggregate a lot of kinds of living that skew the results towards the common modality for that country (e.g. New York and London).
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#20Interactive visualization with free access: https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/
The difference between the US and even its northern neighbor, Canada, seems stark. That being said, how does Manhattan have a greater percentage of car trips than NYC? Are hundreds of thousands of people taking Taxis and Ubers?
> Are hundreds of thousands of people taking Taxis and Ubers?
Probably. Not just the tourists, but business folks. I remember people would regularly take a taxi for a business meeting only a couple blocks away. I guess if the company is paying for it, why not.