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I suspect there's somewhat of a chicken and egg situation going on. If your city grew up around the car, there was never a need to centralise, so now you need

I suspect there's somewhat of a chicken and egg situation going on. If your city grew up around the car, there was never a need to centralise, so now you need a grid to service that. Manhattan may well be a special case where the density and numbers would allow anything to work, if you were designing from scratch for mass transit I don't think grid would be the way to go though.

apendleton 7y ago
Neither DC nor Manhattan grew up around the car. What was different was the role of the car at the time the transit system was built; DC's was built later, during a period when the car had become dominant and the assumption was that it would remain that way, and now as that role of the car is being questioned, the transit system we have is poorly suited to the transit modeshares we'd like to see.