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The place you linked is an outer station in the broader Washington DC metro system. Millions of people live here; trying to view McLean or Tyson’s in isolation
by Armisael16 4y ago
The place you linked is an outer station in the broader Washington DC metro system. Millions of people live here; trying to view McLean or Tyson’s in isolation is insanity.
It’s big because lots of people transit through; the bridges are high because they go over interstate 66. It’s big because because one of the main purposes of the station is to serve as a transfer point from cars to light rail.
Would you suggest that the bridges over an interstate be 10 feet high? Would you rather the rail system just not service that area?
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- rayiner 4y agoHouten is just 50 km from Amsterdam, while Tysons is 25 km from DC. Both are distinct urban areas within a larger urban sprawl: 4.5 million people in 1,400 square miles for DC, 7 million people in 2,400 square miles for the Randstad.
- csomar 4y agoThe comparison is still not fair. You can comparing a road-intersection with a high-intersection. Of course, the highway bridge/tunnel is going to be more massive for pedestrians.
- refurb 4y agoOne look at Google maps tells me they are nowhere close to comparable. Houten is surrounded by farms and cows, next to Utrect which has a population of half a million. Tysons is next to a ring road for DC, and the greater DC-Arlington-Alexandria metro area has 6.6M.
- fmajid 4y agoHaving lived in Paris, London, Tokyo, Amsterdam and San Francisco, it’s striking how quickly you go from urban to rural in the Randstad. It takes at least an hour of driving in Paris to get to the same as 5 minutes out of Amsterdam. And of course US cities are less densely populated because the country has land to spare, why would they?