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Originally Posted by windypeg
If those cars stay out in the suburbs instead of clogging up the downtown isn't that still a win?
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Originally Posted by buzzg
And the second and fourth seem to be at large retail hubs so what's so bad about that? Polo Park here would be an excellent place for a RT station, it pretty much already is one.
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When you compare it to how RT is sold (ie, "it pays for itself in property tax increases!".) then no, it's not a win. If your goal is to increase property value, using all of the high value land close to the stations strictly to park your car is not a win (just think of downtown Winnipeg). If your goal is just to increase ridership then this is a win.
Also, those downtown streets will always be clogged up, even with these RT stations. That's because traffic is a complex adaptive system; as conditions change the players in the game change their strategies. So, as RT took cars off the road to make driving easier, people will fill that void.