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You really hit it on the head. Public transit where I live is a nightmare. It would involve me driving my car something like 15 minutes to the nearest train s
by alyandon 6y ago
You really hit it on the head. Public transit where I live is a nightmare.
It would involve me driving my car something like 15 minutes to the nearest train station and paying for parking (an amenity that is free at my employer's office). Then I'd have to take something like two different trains, followed by two bus rides which would drop me off at a location that is about 3/4th of a mile away from the office. The walk is then along a route that is not pedestrian friendly in any way because it partially along the major access ramps on/off a tollway.
So yeah. :(
- rtlfe 6y agoAs one of your sibling comments points out, it's only this way because of the prevalence of cars. If we didn't place so much emphasis on making it easy to drive everywhere, we'd see far more housing and offices adjacent to transit hubs.
- Noos 6y agoexcept that a lot of business isn't in an office. You will never make a meat packing plant, distribution center, mushroom farm, or many other types of work fit in a walkable city. A lot of this is really knowledge worker privilege for people who can exist in dense zoning. A tremendous amount of businesses simply cannot be built close to housing.
- rtlfe 6y agoThe existence of things that don't work well in high density isn't a good argument against density.