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"The City of Los Angeles has the highest number of Lane miles per 1,000 persons in the US. " Woah stop right there. That's the opposite of reality. Of the metr

by gok 7y ago

"The City of Los Angeles has the highest number of Lane miles per 1,000 persons in the US. " Woah stop right there. That's the opposite of reality. Of the metro areas in the contiguous US, LA is in fact last in miles per resident: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2015/hm72.cfm https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2015/h... (The absolute least is Honolulu)

83457 7y ago
Maybe they are talking about the city specifically while other is speaking to the overall metro area?
- gok 7y ago
  Ok I guess they're citing table 2 from this? https://escholarship.org/content/qt485983zw/qt485983zw.pdf https://escholarship.org/content/qt485983zw/qt485983zw.pdf Which: - Uses data from 2000 - Only looks at LA proper (not really meaningful) - Still doesn't support their claim. Miami, Detroit, Dallas, Tampa Bay, St Louis all have higher lanes/person I'm guessing they thought it showed LA being highest because it's first in the table and didn't realize what column it was sorted by.