I found this article today via Florida Trend. Florida has four metro areas in the top ten. That's not so good.
http://247wallst.com/2011/08/19/cities-where-americans-cant-get-to-work/
This is a huge issue, but one that rarely gets recognized by the anti-transit people. "I'm not going to pay you enough to afford a car, but don't want my tax dollars to get you there either."
cline....you're too fast for me.....guess I was too busy working this afternoon ;)
Quote from: dougskiles on August 23, 2011, 04:54:25 PM
This is a huge issue, but one that rarely gets recognized by the anti-transit people. "I'm not going to pay you enough to afford a car, but don't want my tax dollars to get you there either."
You know, that list seems to show a lot of areas where there are a lot of suburbia or even gated communities which are far away from transit options.
I feel like I'm turning into Glenn Beck here but are those anti-transit people the same ones who made their fortunes by selling people these houses that are far away from nearby mass transit?
The whole melbourne/palm bay/titusville thing is kind of goofy. It's super long and skinny, aka brevard county, and there are like 6 major towns. Most of which have one or a few major aerospace/technology employers and have tons of retired people. Ttusville/Rockledge/Cocoa - NASA, Cape AF Station/Port and Melbourne/Palm Bay - Harris/Grumman/GE. The whole county is basically built around these big companies. There never were big "downtowns" really to begin with. The cities are like suburbs of nothing.