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The most, and least, walkable cities
Those who want to ditch their car might want to avoid North America
Cities in America and Canada are clustered in the bottom left corner, where cars are king and less than 4% of people walk to work, and just 5% take public transport. Our table can be sorted by population size, which shows that larger cities tend to be less active than smaller ones (where people can more easily whizz around by foot or bike over short distances). Places from Singapore to Paris have, over several decades, used carrot-and-stick policies to encourage more people to go car-free (eg, by building pedestrian zones or enforcing congestion charges).
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