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[quote user="schlimm"] <a href="http://mtayloranalysis.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/an-auto-oriented-manhattan/">http://mtayloranalysis.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/an-auto-oriented-manhattan/</a> [/quote] Having lived in NYC for eight years, I found the article and graphs interesting.  I lived in Manhattan for two years and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, for six years. Public transit is critical for getting into, around, and out of Manhattan.  I commuted daily to my job on Wall Street on the subway, although one summer I was able to take a ferry from Bay Ridge to lower Manhattan.  It was a pleasant way to escape the repressive heat on the subway, which was not air conditioned at the time (1964 to 1972).   NYC public transit does not work so well for the people who commute between Borough locations, i.e. Bay Ridge to Staten Island, Queens, Rockaway or the Bronx, etc. It is doable, but it is time consuming, and most of the people I know in Brooklyn, including my in-laws, don't use public transit to travel from cross borough. They drive.  Public transit is important for the nation's largest cities.  I have used it regularly in Hartford, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, and Melbourne, where I lived or visited frequently on business.  It is not so critical, except for certain groups of people, in most medium and small cities.  Most of the systems are hub and spoke.  They are effective for getting into and out of the central business district, but they are not so effective for communiting between suburbs, which is a pattern that has emerged in many areas, i.e. Dallas, Melbourne, etc. Public transit is important for low income people, as well as mobility impaired persons, etc. who don't have an alternative mode of transport.
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