A couple of additions to the figures I posted yesterday. The percentages were of the total number of jobs. These show a slightly different breakdown.
*** Central city residents working where they live: 49.8% Suburbanites working where they live: 18.4% Central city residents working elsewhere: 50.2% Suburbanites working elsewhere: 80.7% ** To add the travel side of the work stats I posted. I'll draw some conclusions in another post. These are all census numbers. I'll lump those who said that they took a streetcar, subway, elevated, railroad, ferryboat, or taxi in with the bus riders. Interestingly, the taxi numbers ran a fairly consistent 1.3% to 1.7% of the total for public transportation, regardless of which city or suburbs. There's another category, "other means", that I'm leaving out because you can't tell whether it's rollerblading, snowmobiling, etc.; it comes to a little under 1/2% of all work trips. I am also assigning all bike, walking, and other means trips to be to jobs in the same city. I know that there are some who would cross boundaries, but when bike trips are less than 2% of the total, even a 10% split doesn't have a huge impact. Minneapolis Used a car, truck or van: 72.9% Drove alone: 61.6% Carpooled: 11.3% Public transportation: 14.6% Motorcycle: 0.1% Bicycle: 1.9% Walked: 6.6% Other: 0.5% Worked at home: 3.4% (likely non-motorized): 11.9% Saint Paul Used a car, truck, or van: 81.6% Drove alone: 69.2% Carpooled: 12.4% Public transportation: 8.5% Motorcycle: 0.1% Bicycle: 0.7% Walked: 5.4% Other: 0.5% Worked at home: 3.0% (likely non-motorized): 9.6% Suburbs Used a car, truck, or van: 79.7% Drove alone: 71.8% Carpooled: 7.9% Public transportation: 2.6% Motorcycle: 0.1% Bicycle: 0.2% Walked: 1.1% Other: 0.4% Worked at home: 3.2% (likely non-motorized): 4.9% Since 53% of Minneapolis residents worked in the city and 11.9% used non-motorized travel, that means 41.1% used motorized travel to work in the city and the other 47% used motorized travel to work elsewhere. Total of 88.1% using motorized travel. Since 45.3% of Saint Paul residents worked in the city and 9.6% used non-motorized travel, that means that 35.7% used motorized travel to work in the city and the other 54.7% used motorized travel to work elsewhere. Total of 90.4% using motorized travel. Since 19.4% of suburbanites worked in the city where they live and 4.9% used non-motorized travel, that means that 14.5% used motorized travel to work in the city where they live and the other 80.6% used motorized travel to work elsewhere. Total of 95.1% using motorized travel. Bruce Gaarder Citizens for Effective Transit in the Twin Cities (no lrt) www.effectivetransit.org Highland Park Saint Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
