Transportation for America has released its list of the 52 largest American metro regions, ranked according to their safety for pedestrians. Our own St. Louis ranked 21st most dangerous, one slot behind Kansas City (Missouri must be proud) and ahead of such luminous bastions of safety as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. This also throws into relief The League of American Bicyclist's ranking of St. Louis as a (of 125) Bicycle-Friendly city.
I was as intrigued by the rankings as I was by the revelation that, while 1.7% of the population in St. Louis walks to work (I've made the three-mile trek myself when it was way too rainy to ride), a whopping 6% of those in the NYC metro region hoof their commute. That's owed, I'm sure, in large part to population density. But it's also something of a mindset. When you last moved to a new home, did you consider the walkability of your commute a determining factor?
Dangerous By Design
(via GOOD)
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We moved specifically so only one of us had to drive. L bikes, and I'm jealous every time I get on the freeway on-ramp.
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