Bicycling and walking in Missouri compared to the national average?
Submitted by Brent Hugh on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 7:54am
I have been looking for solid statistics to show what many of us believe--that the rates to bicycling and walking in Missouri are far below the national average.
Well, here they are:
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Well, here they are:
- St. Louis is right at the bottom when its rate of bicycling is compared with peer cities and Kansas City is 1/3 of St. Louis's dismally low bicycle mode share. In many cities the rate of bicycling is 2 to 5 times higher than in St. Louis. And let's not even talk about Kansas City--it's not even on the map.
- 21% of Kansas Citians reported riding a bicycle at least once in a summer. This compares very unfavorably with the national average: 27% report bicycling at least once per month in the summer.
- Nationally 8.7% of trips are made by walking and 0.8% by bicycle for a total of 9.5% combined. In Kansas City 3.9% of trips are made by walking and 0.4% by bicycling for a total of 4.3%. In short, Kansas City is less than half the national average on all counts.
- The silver lining in all this is that it is perfectly clear that there is tremendous pent-up demand for bicycling and walking in Missouri. People who live in Missouri are not physically different from those who live elsewhere in the U.S. Raising our rates of bicycling and walking above the national average would be a daunting task. But simply raising it to the national average is not so hard. We know what to do, because cities and states across the country have done it already.
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