Commuting To Work

Everyone loves infographics! Here's one from Infrastructurist.com about ways people in different cities commute to work.

No surprise, the majority of the people who live in Houston drive themselves to work. For Houston commuters, sometimes there's no other option than to drive yourself to work because the city is so sprawled out. I guess that's the benefit of living in a densely populated city such as New York. Since New York is so compact, such as people and locations being so close together, the need for automobiles is reduced and makes efficient public transit possible. New Yorkers have the smallest carbon footprint in the nation. 82% of Manhattan residents travel to work by public transit, bike, or by foot and the city has the lowest rate of automobile ownership in the nation. Yale Environment 360 has ranked New York as one of the greenest cities in America because of this reason.