New Mapping Nyc Transit Sheds

Richard Dunks has created a serial of transit maps visualizing how New Yorkers commute to work. The iii maps present how workers inward each New York City census tract go to run yesteryear subway, coach as well as / or car.

The Subway Ridership map reveals the disclose of workers, aged xvi as well as over, who commute to run yesteryear subway scheme inward each census tract. As yous would human face census tracts nigh subway scheme stations inward full general present the highest percent of workers travelling to run yesteryear subway. However the map too reveals that workers in Pelham Bay Park and East New York too convey a high percent of subway scheme commuters, despite having no subway scheme station nearby.

The Bus Transit Shed map shows the disclose of commuters who go to run yesteryear bus. Again, equally yous powerfulness expect, the map reveals that commuters who don't alive nigh a subway scheme station look to a greater extent than probable to commute to run yesteryear bus. However the percent of workers inward census tracts non nigh subway scheme stations as well as travelling to run yesteryear coach doesn't look to hold upward uniform, as well as thence presumably at that topographic point is a story to hold upward told inward those tracts alongside the highest levels of coach commuting usage.

The NYC Vehicle Commuters map visualizes the disclose of commuters inward each census tract who go to run yesteryear car. The map is almost a mirror icon of the Subway Ridership map, suggesting that the subway scheme is rattling successful inward persuading people to go out their cars at home.

You tin read to a greater extent than nigh the production of the maps, the information used as well as to a greater extent than analysis on the commuting trends revealed inward the maps on this Datapolitan article.

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