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City centers are too large! Take the train downtown from your suburb, sure. Then what? Walk 3 miles to work? If you need a car at your destination, then shared
by JoeAltmaier 6y ago
City centers are too large! Take the train downtown from your suburb, sure. Then what? Walk 3 miles to work?
If you need a car at your destination, then shared transportation moves way down the list of preferred options.
- nine_k 6y agoIn many dense cities (NYC, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris) transferring from a suburban train to a subway train is often walking like 0.05 mile, or even not at all. Then you have to walk maybe 1-2 blocks from a subway station to work, sometimes zero (in NYC at least).
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoThat sounds ideal. And explains why cities without subway system, have no commuter train service either.
- kalleboo 6y agoUp to 3 miles is also easily doable on a bike
- eertami 6y agoIn the UK at least you often are not allowed to take a bike during rush hour on the busy train lines.
- kalleboo 6y agoIf it's your daily work commute, you just leave a bike at the destination train station. Where I've lived and commuted in Sweden and Japan, train stations have huge bike parking lots for this reason.
- bluGill 6y agoIt is called a transport network. The train connects to anther train, bus, subway, or any of a number of others ways to get around. Not quite as convenient as parking next to the door, but if the network is good it isn't far off, and overall it can be faster.