April 7, 2009 at 1:59pm
The landscape has been telling the story, and now a Brookings Institution study of the country's top 98 metro areas quantifies it: Jobs in Rochester have been moving farther away from the city.
Between 1998 and 2006 (the latest figures in the study), the Brookings study says, we gained 907 jobs within 35-miles of downtown. But within 3 miles of downtown, jobs dropped by 1.9 percent. Where was the job growth? More than 10 miles out.
The breakdown: in 2006, 32 percent of the jobs were within 3 miles of downtown, 47.3 percent were within 3 and 10 miles of downtown, and 20.7 percent were more than 10 miles outside of downtown.
The same thing's happening throughout the country. And in fact, the job sprawl's worse in the largest metropolitan areas, where in some cases more than half of the jobs are located more than 10 miles away from downtown. Overall, 21 percent of the jobs were located within 3 miles of downtown. Forty-five percent were located more than 10 miles out.
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Jackson said on Apr. 07, 2009 at 3:21pm
Transportation, transportation, transportation. Things are built where transportation is provided. Our government has decided that cities are best served by the automobile, therefore infrastructure will be built to serve suburban development as cities like rochester are relatively incompatible with an auto-centric path of development, as the cost of building office buildings with large parking lots is too high in the city. What the city needs to do is utilize the infrastructure which still exists, i.e. the subway tunnels, for fast trains that will go far faster than you can drive. Only then will it make sense for people and businesses to locate inside the city.
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