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Suburbs, sure, but do malls really favor cars? Where I grew up, the mall was the only place where people would walk from one store to another instead of drivin
by kd5bjo 7y ago
Suburbs, sure, but do malls really favor cars? Where I grew up, the mall was the only place where people would walk from one store to another instead of driving. I’ve also been in plenty of urban malls that have excellent public transit connections and are situated on busy pedestrian streets.
- megablast 7y agoMalls are usually surrounded by a huge carpark.
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- kd5bjo 7y agoSo are suburban train stations. It’s the natural byproduct of places where people change their mode of transport from cars to something else. Malls are one of the only high-density land uses that people in the suburbs accept, and the surrounding carpark is a necessary buffer between the low- and high-density development. I contend the problem isn’t with the mall itself, but with the low-density development surrounding it.
- noobermin 7y agoI think this is the point. Malls in cities in other countries are not as pedestrian/public transit unfriendly as they are in the US.
- dannyw 7y agoAbsolutely not. In Sydney, we have malls with their own suburban train stations (eg Macquarie Centre), and bus interchanges. The vast majority of people get there by public transport, not driving.