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Facilitating more trips absolutely should be the goal of any transit system. Getting yourself from point A to point B provides you value - else why would you go
by ThrustVectoring 9y ago
Facilitating more trips absolutely should be the goal of any transit system. Getting yourself from point A to point B provides you value - else why would you go? "More people sitting in congestion" just means that the facilitated trips are limited by capacity and density rather than geometric distance.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoYet having more people sat in congestion is going to have a negative affect on societies overall wellbeing. The problem is we look at it from the perspective of the immediate economic benefit and ignore the costs of poorer health outcomes and increased environmental degredation.
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoOn further thought overnight, I agree with you more. There's a combined goal between zoning and transit to meet human needs, and obviating the need to make a trip on the zoning end is just as good as facilitating a trip on the transit end. The overall systems approach is better in total, too - there are tons of broad cross-cutting concerns here, and transit is one piece of a larger and more complex system.