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tl;dr Connectivity counts: More intersections mean more walking, and more disconnected cul-de-sacs mean more driving. People who live in neighborhoods with lat
by webXL 13y ago
tl;dr
Connectivity counts: More intersections mean more walking, and more disconnected cul-de-sacs mean more driving. People who live in neighborhoods with latticeworklike streets actually drive 26 percent fewer miles than people in the cul-de-sac forest.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoThat's a darned shame. Because streets use a shameful fraction of our city surface area. Cul-de-sacs can be quite efficient. Kind of like a dendritic structure, every endpoint served with a relative minimum of cement. I imagine the stats are because folks like to walk a circuit, not walk out-and-back on the same route, because its boring.
- peatmoss 13y agoIt more relates to the relative size of the service area and the fact that pedestrians have a steeper distance decay function than other modes.