Episode 401: Health Gains for the Compact Walkable City
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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The Importance of Walkability in Transportation Urban Design
In the US, we included Baltimore, Seattle and Phoenix. They had a target by 2040 to have a 5% walking cycling mode share to work. And certainly we found that the Australasian cities and the US cities had the sort of most car-centric policy frameworks. That's perhaps not a surprise. We also found that those cities similarly, when you look at the built environments, that they had lowest levels of walkability. If you live in a walkable environment, you're more likely to walk. So if you can walk to the local shops, and there's some characteristics of awalkable environment,. so it's the key thing to walkable environment that you've got
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