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NYC is the absolute best case in the US, if you're talking about the ability to exist without a car. It's not that no one talks about those millions of househol
by tavavex 11mo ago
NYC is the absolute best case in the US, if you're talking about the ability to exist without a car. It's not that no one talks about those millions of households, it's that they are all concentrated on a few standout islands (literally!) in a sea of the nearly identical car-only supermajority of cities. It's the exception to all exceptions.
- Retric 11mo agoMost people live on a few islands of density in a sea of nearly empty land in the US.
- tavavex 11mo agoMost people live in cities, but the vast majority of American cities do not approach even 10% of the quality and availability of transit in NYC. That's why I said that NYC is a massive outlier among the rest of the US.
- Retric 11mo agoI don’t think the average city is a useful comparison when more people live in larger cities which tend to have better mass transit options. People live car free in a wide range of cities, it’s more convenient for more people in NYC thus the large percentage of people doing so, but the percentage is rarely zero.