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There are several talking points mentioned in this thread that are explored more on the NotJustBikes YouTube Channel. - When Canada built a relatively recent u

There are several talking points mentioned in this thread that are explored more on the NotJustBikes YouTube Channel. - When Canada built a relatively recent urban rail to Toronto, they built it so you have to drive to the train station, and used the high value land right around the station for ... surface car parking. This is absurdly wasteful of valuable real estate and makes the expensive train add much less value to the people. Also the train only runs around rush hours, making it useless for almost anyone who isn't driving to the train for a commute to work. "The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA - "Why city design is import (and why I hate Houston)" [it's not walkable] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54 - How American urban transit is built misunderstanding the way transit needs to work to be successful, notably trying to build transit as a bandaid over car problems, but not making it regular, frequent, reliable, fast, convenient, instead plonking an isolated transit connection from nowhere to nowhere which runs once every couple of hours and then pointing to it as an example of how transit doesn't work in America - "America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnyeRlMsTgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnyeRlMsTgI - Addressing the "America is too big and spread out for rail" arguments, notably that USA and Canada were built by trains, and streetcar suburbs, and that most journes Americans take every day are less than 5 miles. - "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ

cryptonector 3y ago
> - Addressing the "America is too big and spread out for rail" arguments, notably that USA and Canada were built by trains, and streetcar suburbs, and that most journes Americans take every day are less than 5 miles. - "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ The Eastern seaboard of the U.S. absolutely has a) a very linear quality to it (from DC to Boston), b) density, and it's been so since the the early 19th century. Canada is huge, but its population lives along a very narrow latitude band, so it's linear (and low-density). Outside the Eastern seaboard the U.S. really is huge, with nothing like a linear arrangement of cities.

cryptonector 3y ago

> - Addressing the "America is too big and spread out for rail" arguments, notably that USA and Canada were built by trains, and streetcar suburbs, and that most journes Americans take every day are less than 5 miles. - "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ The Eastern seaboard of the U.S. absolutely has a) a very linear quality to it (from DC to Boston), b) density, and it's been so since the the early 19th century. Canada is huge, but its population lives along a very narrow latitude band, so it's linear (and low-density). Outside the Eastern seaboard the U.S. really is huge, with nothing like a linear arrangement of cities.