Coastal US Cities Top Ranking of Climate-Friendly Transportation
Growing metro areas in the US Sun Belt have some of the worst transportation infrastructure for reducing climate emissions, according to a new report.
San Jose, California, topped a ranking of metro areas’ transportation climate impact, with low vehicle emissions and high rates of EV adoption.
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Metropolitan areas in the Southeast US have the worst transportation outcomes for reducing greenhouse emissions, according to a ranking that considers factors from vehicle emissions to transit and bike ridership. Coastal metro areas like Silicon Valley and New York City, by contrast, perform the best.
In recent years, domestic migration has generally flowed toward Sun Belt cities, but these areas tend to lack the robust transit options that top-ranking metros concentrated around the coasts and the upper northeast have available, according to StreetLight Data, Inc., a subsidiary of Jacobs.