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To quote the great Yogi Berra, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." No matter how many want to avoided crowded places, they are crowded because a lot
by btilly 4y ago
To quote the great Yogi Berra, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
No matter how many want to avoided crowded places, they are crowded because a lot of people are already there, and a lot of others would like to grow. And this is only possible if there actually are good ways to get there.
To serve a geographically spread out group, it is reasonable to build a a hub and spoke system. And the geographically convenient place to put the hub generally already has a city built there exactly because it is geographically convenient.
- ghaff 4y agoExcept that land is expensive and things like airports in particular are generally not built adjacent to those downtowns. Train stations often are as they don't require anything like the land but they can have suburban stations as well. If I--and almost certainly many other people who don't live in the city--had to drive into and park in downtown Boston to take Amtrak it wouldn't remotely be a consideration. And, yes, there's commuter rail but now you're adding hours to traveling. At that point I'm just driving into NY or maybe driving to a NY commuter rail station.