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The problem with that logic is opportunity cost. What improvements to public transit could have been done with that thick wad of cash? Often (usually?) ones tha
by 99052882514569 7y ago
The problem with that logic is opportunity cost. What improvements to public transit could have been done with that thick wad of cash? Often (usually?) ones that would open up options and mobility to far more people.
- bluGill 7y agoActually not. The highway allows undense spread out development. While you can build transit to those areas, to have useful transit (meaning stop every 5 minutes, not too many detours, and few transfers) you end up spending far more capital to build lightly used lines that are expensive to operator because so few people are on them (even if we assume private cars are illegal there wouldn't be many riders). Note that not dense is the important part of the above. If you are willing to allow dense development (which most zones in the US prohibit) everything changes.
- magduf 7y ago>If you are willing to allow dense development (which most zones in the US prohibit) everything changes. Yep, this is the answer to it all: we need to build much more densely, and people need to get used to not having a big McMansion with a gigantic lawn.