Minneapolis–St. PaulChart of the week: December 12, 2016

Source: JLL Research

Transit dependency fades as workplace parking becomes more abundant

• Many factors support metro transit ridership, lack of parking at a place of work is certainly one. Where there is a low ratio of available parking to number of workers there is a workforce highly dependent on metro transit. The opposite exists, as visualized above, where space abounds and parking is available.

• As the gradient fades from purple to green, overall ridership numbers are visualized, while marker sizes depict a workplace’s total available parking capacity divided by the number of workers to create a normalized ratio.