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In this fantastic and helpful infographic, artist Martha Kang McGill reveals how the people of eight major U.S. cities get to work, based on numbers from the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. The people at the bottom of the letters share transportation, through biking, walking, taking public transit, or carpooling. The people at top, represented by the orange, drive themselves.

Thanks, Infrastructurist!

Jeremy Adam Smith

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeremy Adam Smith

Jeremy Adam Smith is the editor who helped launch Shareable.net. He's the author of The Daddy Shift (Beacon Press, June 2009); co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct (W.W. Norton


Things I share: Mainly babysitting with other parents! I also share all the transportation I can, through bikes and buses and trains and carpooling.