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I agree about Chicago and Boston, and I've never been to New Orleans. However, you can't walk anywhere in Austin.
by ch4s3 10y ago
I agree about Chicago and Boston, and I've never been to New Orleans. However, you can't walk anywhere in Austin.
- ghaff 10y agoThose are probably the only two cities on that list which would be (relatively) doable without cars. Pretty good public transit and significant areas that are fairly dense. Not New Orleans. Like any city, you can identify areas where you might live and work without a car but you're going to have pretty limited mobility. Public transit is somewhat better than it used to be but it's still fairly limited--now a variety of streetcars but no subway for obvious reasons.
- dfinninger 10y agoI mean, if you live and work downtown it's pretty alright. But then you don't really have easy walkable access to Burnet, East Side, SoCo, etc. I mean, you get 6th. Maybe Rainey depending on where you live downtown. But yeah, I lived halfway to Bee Cave and worked on 360. That made me much happier than being directly downtown.
- dionidium 10y agoI went to a CocoaConf in Austin two years ago. I snapped a lot of desire path photos, because my daily walk from my hotel to the conference was mostly devoid of pedestrian facilities, including even sidewalks. http://m.imgur.com/a/NhaYH http://m.imgur.com/a/NhaYH Clearly, people are walking there, but the city doesn't seem to give a shit.
- jacobush 10y agoTIL desire path
- wybiral 10y agoI live in Austin (central, Hyde Park area) and walk, bike, or bus everywhere.