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Is there a real reason to believe that highways can provide all the transit the city will ever need? Like, if only people would finally rideshare (which cities

Is there a real reason to believe that highways can provide all the transit the city will ever need? Like, if only people would finally rideshare (which cities have been promoting since, what, the 60's) all the traffic would be gone? Is there a train layout that would be much more attractive?

jaxn 9y ago
My comment about the highways is that people live/work in 6 directions (due to traditional access via interstates). A train on one of them won't do much, especially since it isn't even the busiest direction.
- JoBrad 9y ago
  The 10-year proposal includes light rail in several directions. Not sure why you think it’s only 1? http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/26/nashville-underground-tunnel-why-mayor-megan-barry-transit-team-says-tunnel-wouldnt-too-big-dig/795533001/ http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/10/26/nashville-un...
  - jaxn 9y ago
    Not really. It comes to downtown from the north, and then goes west, but stops at I440. So that has zero benefit to the people who commute from the west on I40.
- smileysteve 9y ago
  > A train on one of them won't do much It won't do much, but it might do a little. If 1% of that 18% takes the train any amount of their commute, it can have a significant impact. I'm in Atlanta. Only about ~5% of our metro population uses the train. But that's 200k people. If the alternative is most of those 200k people and they're each individually a car taking up about 50sq feet (10x5) -- you can bet our traffic would be much worse.