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As someone who lives in a giant spread out city (Houston) I have attempted to bus in from the suburbs on occasion and it was fun, but hardly a reasonable everyd
by impala454 10y ago
As someone who lives in a giant spread out city (Houston) I have attempted to bus in from the suburbs on occasion and it was fun, but hardly a reasonable everyday occurrence. Our city is just too spread out. I've visited NYC and it's large as well but everything is so compacted together you don't have to go far from a train station to get where you want to go.
- Consultant32452 10y agoI feel like this is a chicken and egg problem. Without the transportation infrastructure you can't get the population/business density, but without the population density you can't justify the infrastructure. Houston could probably build decent rail transportation to get you where you needed to go, but it won't happen. I live in a city like yours, our public transportation is atrocious. It takes at least an hour to get anywhere.
- zaque1213 10y agoHey another Houstonian! My thoughts exactly.
- ButMyFavThing 10y agoYou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSRPMFDTSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSRPMFDTSs
- TulliusCicero 10y agoThis is precisely because of the car-oriented policies. "We built this city for driving, and now you have no choice but to drive!" Well, duh. Now you can double down on that, I guess, but cars scale rather poorly, and they're probably part of why Americans are so fat.