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Posted Apr 11, 2020, 6:59 PM
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More people using public transit, walking, and biking reduces the demand for parking in downtowns, freeing up space for development, allowing for a greater number of buildings to be built in a smaller area, and allowing for each building to have more non-parking levels above ground relative to the amount of parking levels below ground.
Halifax in 2011 had higher public transit usage than every US metropolitan area except New York, Washington, and San Francisco. So a dense core there is to be expected.
United States:
Code:
Metro Area Population %Transit %Active
New York 19,015,900 32.38 7.04
Los Angeles 12,944,801 6.55 3.79
Chicago 9,504,753 12.20 3.91
Dallas 6,526,548 1.51 1.32
Houston 6,086,536 2.42 1.68
Philadelphia 5,992,414 9.66 4.45
Washington 5,703,948 15.51 3.96
Miami 5,670,125 3.99 2.29
Atlanta 5,268,860 3.26 1.85
Boston 4,552,402 12.19 6.41
San Francisco 4,391,037 15.58 6.55
Riverside 4,304,994 1.67 1.87
Detroit 4,285,832 1.69 1.59
Phoenix 4,263,236 2.30 2.83
Seattle 3,500,026 8.57 4.86
Minneapolis 3,318,486 4.91 3.00
San Diego 3,140,069 3.23 3.70
Tampa 2,824,724 1.31 2.37
St. Louis 2,817,355 2.48 2.08
Baltimore 2,729,110 6.38 2.97
Pittsburgh 2,359,746 5.76 3.77
Portland 2,262,605 6.77 6.01
San Antonio 2,194,927 2.24 2.26
Sacramento 2,176,235 2.90 4.24
Orlando 2,171,360 2.62 1.86
Cincinnati 2,138,038 2.13 2.28
Cleveland 2,068,283 3.32 2.52
Kansas City 2,052,676 1.26 1.46
Las Vegas 1,969,975 4.02 2.12
San Jose 1,865,450 3.54 4.26
Columbus 1,858,464 1.83 2.65
Charlotte 1,795,472 2.46 1.73
Austin 1,783,519 2.66 3.21
Indianapolis 1,778,568 1.22 2.07
Virginia Beach 1,677,984 1.91 3.08
Nashville 1,617,142 1.47 1.69
Providence 1,600,224 2.89 3.32
Milwaukee 1,562,216 4.15 3.44
Jacksonville 1,358,593 1.62 1.65
Memphis 1,325,605 1.61 1.35
Louisville 1,294,849 1.97 2.04
Oklahoma City 1,278,053 0.51 2.15
Richmond 1,270,541 1.72 1.85
Hartford 1,213,255 3.89 3.24
New Orleans 1,191,089 2.81 4.00
Raleigh 1,163,515 1.17 1.69
Salt Lake City 1,145,905 3.76 2.75
Buffalo 1,134,039 3.77 3.35
Birmingham 1,132,264 0.70 1.29
Rochester 1,055,278 1.92 3.80
Honolulu 964,607 7.87 6.51
Tulsa 946,962 0.49 1.52
Fresno 942,904 1.12 2.91
Bridgeport 925,899 9.17 2.49
Albuquerque 899,149 1.72 3.47
Omaha 877,110 0.95 2.11
Albany 871,478 3.28 3.83
New Haven 861,113 4.06 4.45
Bakersfield 851,710 1.28 2.28
Grand Rapids 779,604 1.67 1.90
Columbia 777,116 0.69 4.08
Greensboro 730,966 1.17 1.84
Little Rock 709,901 0.57 1.37
Knoxville 704,500 0.45 1.18
Akron 701,456 1.39 2.01
Stockton 696,214 1.60 2.25
Springfield 693,204 2.89 3.96
Syracuse 662,553 2.33 4.36
Boise 627,281 0.41 2.81
Des Moines 580,255 1.00 1.67
Scranton 563,223 1.41 3.71
Ogden 555,437 2.50 1.98
Provo 541,710 1.39 5.58
Lancaster 523,594 1.51 4.23
Durham 512,979 4.18 3.77
Santa Rosa 488,116 1.92 5.11
Winston-Salem 482,025 1.12 1.56
Spokane 473,761 3.06 3.54
Lansing 465,138 2.77 6.81
Asheville 429,017 0.47 2.53
Fort Wayne 418,148 0.60 1.27
Canton 405,693 0.89 1.77
Manchester 401,696 0.73 1.80
Salem 394,865 1.00 5.47
Anchorage 387,516 2.01 3.89
Peoria 380,961 1.13 2.30
Trenton 367,063 8.49 5.16
Savannah 355,576 2.09 2.39
Rockford 348,360 0.50 1.37
Ann Arbor 347,962 6.85 8.62
Boulder 299,378 6.68 9.69
Duluth 279,761 2.08 4.97
Atlantic City 274,338 9.16 4.09
Olympia 256,591 1.59 2.11
Topeka 234,380 0.37 2.50
Sioux Falls 232,433 0.96 3.11
Champaign 232,050 7.74 10.59
Fargo 212,171 0.59 5.86
Charlottesville 202,406 3.13 8.14
Saginaw 199,088 0.44 2.46
Racine 195,388 2.27 2.48
Athens 193,317 3.12 6.25
St. Cloud 190,014 1.14 3.66
Eau Claire 161,151 0.79 4.60
Pueblo 160,545 0.74 2.80
Billings 160,097 1.53 4.30
Iowa City 154,893 6.18 9.71
Bangor 153,786 0.64 5.48
Jefferson City 152,370 0.48 1.75
Santa Fe 145,648 1.21 4.51
Jackson 116,995 0.31 1.10
Ithaca 101,723 5.40 17.49
United Kingdom:
Code:
Metro Area Population %Transit %Active
London 14,717,231 36.29 12.83
Birmingham 3,720,360 14.26 11.30
Manchester 2,734,806 14.70 13.38
Leeds 2,467,376 14.49 13.09
Liverpool 2,467,305 13.23 12.35
Glasgow 1,966,943 20.23 9.77
Newcastle 1,934,095 15.20 12.65
Portsmouth 1,670,399 8.42 16.62
Nottingham 1,632,238 11.38 14.19
Sheffield 1,546,412 13.32 12.36
Cardiff 1,390,247 9.60 12.49
Bristol 1,069,583 9.45 20.45
Leicester 929,952 8.77 15.21
Edinburgh 834,648 24.46 16.61
Brighton 785,000 17.51 19.65
Middlesbrough 662,791 8.76 13.54
Hull 590,585 8.61 17.61
Bournemouth 511,027 7.75 16.07
Stoke 469,985 6.89 11.45
Blackburn 404,734 7.71 14.13
Norwich 381,170 7.75 18.93
Swansea 378,835 6.36 11.50
Preston 356,414 8.88 13.04
Blackpool 325,571 7.57 15.88
Cambridge 272,622 10.41 30.03
Dundee 263,246 12.19 14.98
Ipswich 257,682 8.16 19.08
York 198,051 10.45 31.53
Peterborough 183,631 10.51 15.64
Hastings 180,842 11.17 16.05
Colchester 173,074 14.50 17.44
Bedford 157,479 9.66 15.27
Kettering 154,730 5.85 13.06
Canterbury 151,145 11.14 19.80
Lancaster 139,375 8.66 20.30
Thanet 134,186 11.04 15.85
Canada:
Code:
Metro Area Population %Transit %Active
Toronto 5,584,064 23.28 5.72
Montreal 3,934,078 22.24 7.09
Vancouver 2,313,328 19.71 8.08
Ottawa 1,236,324 20.10 8.55
Calgary 1,214,839 15.87 6.04
Edmonton 1,159,869 11.32 5.16
Quebec 767,310 11.34 7.46
Winnipeg 730,018 13.41 7.14
Hamilton 721,053 9.27 5.28
Kitchener 496,383 5.43 5.46
London 474,786 6.89 5.39
St. Catharines 392,184 2.94 6.00
Halifax 390,328 12.47 8.52
Oshawa 356,177 8.45 3.63
Victoria 344,177 11.08 15.89
Windsor 315,460 3.02 4.80
Saskatoon 262,215 4.45 7.09
Regina 211,519 4.77 5.90
Sherbrooke 202,261 4.19 7.38
St. John's 196,954 2.98 5.66
Barrie 184,325 4.59 4.42
Kelowna 176,435 3.43 7.52
Abbotsford 166,685 2.54 3.41
Kingston 159,561 5.06 10.69
Sudbury 158,260 4.52 6.03
Trois-Rivières 146,930 2.27 6.10
Guelph 141,097 6.24 6.63
Moncton 139,287 3.25 6.73
Saint John 129,057 4.72 5.30
Thunder Bay 121,596 3.58 6.27
Peterborough 118,975 3.48 8.63
Lethbridge 102,785 2.78 5.30
The differences in the built form of US cities is just the result of coordinated planning policies to encourage alternatives to driving and the lack of investment in public transit there compared to other countries.
The Calgary metropolitan area is basically just Calgary. The development can be more easily directed a certain way. Compare that to a typical US metropolitan area which can have dozens or even hundreds of different municipalities. That political fragmentation and lack of unity makes development there much harder to control.
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