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> self evident

not if there are other factors e.g lack of civil safety.

But yes, the data does show that most things are held relatively equal when grouping reasons into <1mile and >1mile. So distance seems to be the clear factor. Nice article.



One other thing to note is that in older suburbs, there tends to be a school within the boundary of the arterial road grid, which is often about mile spacing, so increasing the distance to school also substantially increases the amount of heavy traffic streets to walk alongside or cross.




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