{"id":59061,"date":"2014-10-15T06:49:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59061"},"modified":"2014-10-15T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:51:20","slug":"walkability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59061","title":{"rendered":"Walkability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/if-i-do-say-so-myself\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: Houston is extremely flat, but has a lot of big trees, an impressive skyline, nice clouds, and fine sunsets. San Francisco is obviously unique, but Houston outpointed Los Angeles in the late 1970s on trees, skyline, clouds, and sunsets.<\/p>\n<p>Is \u201c<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.walkscore.com\/cities-and-neighborhoods\/\">walkability<\/a>\u201d a euphemism for \u201cyou can have a few drinks with dinner at the restaurant and not have to risk a DUI?\u201d That\u2019s a nice amenity, but if that\u2019s what this euphemism means, can we spell it out?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalkability\u201d also means I don\u2019t have to be a taxi for my kids\u2019 activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That would be great, but that seems to come more with suburban than with urban life.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, here\u2019s a way to compare public transportation to work across cities, apples to apples. (This isn\u2019t walkability in your home neighborhood, it\u2019s your opportunity to ditch driving to work.) Most cities have a downtown where a lot of lawyers work. What percentage of married lawyers between 35 and 60 who work downtown take public transportation (including commuter trains) to work at least 3 days a week?<\/p>\n<p>That seems like a pretty fair comparison across cities.<\/p>\n<p>Hallie: What percentage of married lawyers between 35 and 60 who work downtown take public transportation (including commuter trains) to work at least 3 days a week?<\/p>\n<p>None that I\u2019m aware of (in St Louis).<\/p>\n<p>Steve Sailer writes: Probably very few in Los Angeles either. I watched people get off the subway in North Hollywood last year at rush hour, and maybe 1%-2% of the men looked like lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Probably some lawyers take buses down Wilshire. And there\u2019s now a trolley from Pasadena. I talked to a professional who rode that to downtown.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, however, lots of men in good suits take the commuter trains from the suburbs to the Loop. It\u2019s a pretty pleasant lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer writes: Houston is extremely flat, but has a lot of big trees, an impressive skyline, nice clouds, and fine sunsets. San Francisco is obviously unique, but Houston outpointed Los Angeles in the late 1970s on trees, skyline, clouds, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59066,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59061\/revisions\/59066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}