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Creating Walkable Communities: Understanding Trade-offs
RESEARCH BRIEF — Volume 15 — July 12, 2018
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Figure.
Percentage reporting level of support for trade-offs to create walkable communities among adults, SummerStyles 2014 (N = 3,995). Error bars represent the upper and lower bounds of the 95% confidence interval. Of the 4,269 respondents, 274 were excluded for missing data (n = 78) or because they indicated they were unable to walk when asked about how often they usually walk for at least 10 minutes at a time (n = 196).
| Level of Support | Trade-off | |
|---|---|---|
| Designing streets with sidewalks, crosswalks, stop signs, and other features to make it safer to walk, even if it means driving slower, % | Designing communities so that more stores and other places are within walking distance of homes, even if this means building homes closer together, % | |
| Strongly oppose | 1.9 (1.4–2.4) | 6.7 (5.8–7.7) |
| Oppose | 8.6 (7.6–9.7) | 24.6 (23.1–26.2) |
| Don’t know | 7.3 (6.4–8.3) | 13.1 (11.8–14.4) |
| Favor | 48.9 (47.1–50.8) | 36.3 (34.5–38.1) |
| Strongly favor | 33.3 (31.5–35.1) | 19.4 (17.9–20.9) |
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