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That's great. Should increase demand for transit.

• busterarm 3y ago
  Effective public transit isn't something you can bolt onto a city after the roads are all built. Cities like Austin that were designed for cars from the outset are hopeless lost causes. Old world cities can have great public transit because they were dense long before cars existed and have hundreds of years worth of civil projects designed to get people from A to B.
  • arcticbull 3y ago
    > ... have hundreds of years worth of civil projects designed to get people from A to B. We better get started right away then, huh.
    • busterarm 3y ago
      You don't start by building public transit. You start by bulldozing roads and housing and moving/rebuilding communities.
      • arcticbull 3y ago
        Do you have a citation for that? Large portions of Paris for instance aren't exactly old-world high density development. Luckily they're putting in the GPE, which is 120 miles of metro service. [1] Once you have the metro, you can put in higher-density development around the stations, and over time, the neighborhood changes. That's just fine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express
        • busterarm 3y ago
          Most of Paris as we know it was built in the 1950s and 1960s. Especially in the 1970s French politicians took on ambitious public works projects in Paris. Most of the housing and most of the population was obliterated in the late-1930s through the mid-1940s, as you might recall. Two-thirds of the city's population had fled before the German invasion started even.