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More metro areas should have mass transit along the ring highways connecting the edge cities and close in suburbs. Airports and commuter rail stations are also
by Merrill 7y ago
More metro areas should have mass transit along the ring highways connecting the edge cities and close in suburbs. Airports and commuter rail stations are also often along the ring highways or on short stubs off them.
There is no reason to focus business in the urban core, rather than in office parks and industrial areas around the periphery. People who want to live in the urban core can reverse commute to jobs on the ring.
- smileysteve 7y ago> There is no reason to focus business in the urban core, Given your example, effective land use via parking is one. In a spoke and hub transit model; if people go to the hub, they can use central transit to get there; If they go to the outer wheel, unless the place is on the spoke itself, then additional last mile transportation is required.