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Transit works better if it is where people are going rather than where it is convenient to build - for example, downtown Falls Church VA instead of the freeway
by tafda 8y ago
Transit works better if it is where people are going rather than where it is convenient to build - for example, downtown Falls Church VA instead of the freeway median. Building densely around the stations can drive ridership. See: Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore. Of course, building in more congested areas is more expensive.
Freeway median transit is no panacea (though better than nothing).
- TuringNYC 8y agoWell the idea is that the major highways are a good indicator of where people are going. If you build a major high way, and then widen it, chances are good its where people want to travel along. With respect to getting to downtown Falls Church VA, that is more a last mile problem. One I dont want to dismiss, but not something a commuter rail can solve. The commuter rail does pretty well at getting people to several major job districts (DC, Tyson's Corner) Building commuter rail along highway medians solves a different problem -- the NYC problem where a city fiddles around for 40yrs figuring out where to dig a tunnel and eminent domain problems.
- marcosdumay 8y agoLarge roads are a good indicator of places everybody goes through. People rarely want to go there. Some are built so traffic is moved from where people actually want to go into some place that is not too far (by car) but will not disturb the destination; others are built at the end of a set of smaller roads, linking to a different set at the other end.