For the full article from Real Simple Magazine go to this URL: http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/time-saving-cities-00000000030612/index.html

 

16. (Tie) Cleveland

 

Time-saving score: 14

Population: 433,748

 

With the number two on-time airport in our survey and one of the shortest commutes (just 23.5 minutes), Cleveland scores additional points for its free downtown trolley and large number of farmers’ markets.

 

Getting around: 3

Health and safety: 3.5

Information and technology: 3

Green time-savers: 3.5

Lifestyle: 1

Another worthless list. I'm sure a few people would agree with all their methods, but most people will disagree with some portions of their methods. For example they use walkability as a criteria for "getting around". While walkability is important for an attractive green city, I don't think it is a timesaver.

Walkability is a timesaver within the context of whatever is within a reasonable walking distance.... a minor time saver perhaps, but a timesaver nonetheless.

Walkability is a timesaver within the context of whatever is within a reasonable walking distance.... a minor time saver perhaps, but a timesaver nonetheless.

 

Yep. If you're traveling from one building downtown to another one that's, say, half a dozen blocks away I will walk faster than the person who has to go get their car, bring it down from the parking garage, drive it to another parking deck, and head over to their destination building.

 

Even in high-density urban neighborhoods, walking is faster than driving. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why GM and Shell Oil developed their visions for the City of Tomorrow in the late 1930s?

 

Just ask Paul Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Automobile Co. who said this in 1939....

 

"(New roads) must gash ruthlessly through built-up sections of overcrowded cities. If we are to have the full use of automobiles, cities must be remade. The greatest automobile market today, the greatest untapped field of potential customers, is the large number of city people who refuse to own cars, or use the cars they have very little, because it's a nuisance to take them out."

 

Read more at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2iVbs4Myu_AC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Paul+Hoffman,+Studebaker,+If+we+are+to+have+the+full+use+of+automobiles,+cities+must+be+remade&source=bl&ots=Fpf-YvDpuk&sig=kmrx8fNQv-qv1qvjJgoI3p2X16s&hl=en&ei=8T-iS_yXPI3YM6GEtdsI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCkQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false