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If you read this, or other things about reducing car traffic in Barcelona, one should keep the following in mind: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lafabricadels
by yokaze 5y ago
If you read this, or other things about reducing car traffic in Barcelona, one should keep the following in mind: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lafabricadelsol/en/noticia/did-you-know-that-barcelona-is-the-city-with-the-highest-vehicle-density-in-europe_405934 https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lafabricadelsol/en/noticia/...
6000cars/km² in Barcelona.
San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area has 4000/sq mi... 1540/km²
Guttenberg, NJ has the highest in the US with 20,600/sq mi (8000/km²)
Source:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.planetizen.com/node/45622%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.planetizen.com/node/45622%3...
- mastax 5y agoBarcelona has a population density of 16,000/km², while the city of San Francisco has a density of 2,419/km².
- duskwuff 5y ago> the city of San Francisco has a density of 2,419/km² Where are you getting that number? Wikipedia has 7,194/km².
- yokaze 5y agoParis has a population density of 20000/km², and Manhattan of 28,872/km². Population density is correlated with car density up to a certain point.
- adrianN 5y agoUsually up to the point where giving 50-100sqm of road to 1.1 people traveling in a car prevents more people from living in the area (because all there is is roads and parking), and more scalable infrastructure is built.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoDe-AMPed link: https://www.planetizen.com/node/45622 https://www.planetizen.com/node/45622
- vanilla_nut 5y agoThank you. Some of us forced to use neutered browsers on iOS really appreciate this.