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Funny I know plenty of places where public transport is faster than a car (maybe with the exception of the middle of the night). You bring up the example of wal
by cycomanic 4y ago
Funny I know plenty of places where public transport is faster than a car (maybe with the exception of the middle of the night). You bring up the example of walking 15min to a train station (that's already a longish walk), but somehow ignore the case of having to find a parking spot. I certainly have spend >20min finding a parking spot when I really needed to take a car for some reason (and the often still had to walk 10min after). Sure that's not the case if you consider a vast US City designed around cars where parking makes up a large fraction of the city (incidentally that's the point of the article), but a city like that is not very livable either.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoI think its pretty easy to park because most american cities are overparked, and as they convert surface lot to 5/1 they end up even more overparked because that usually comes with a subterranean garage and another 300 spaces that weren’t there before. You’d be hard pressed to lay rail based transit so densely where everyone in the metro area has a 15 min walk to a station much less one going somewhere relevant for them. Simple bussing upgrades are much more realistic for us to see comprehensive transit in our lifetimes. Things like signal priority and a protected lane would go a long way for little cash and time. Too bad the bus is invisible to most people and politicians.