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Originally Posted by M1EK
The same suburbanites who won't take an excellent, comfortable, express bus ride straight to their office today, you mean? Those people are the ones you expect to take not one, but TWO transit rides to get where they're going?
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In short, yes. I’ve studied this topic in depth and I have repeatedly found that Americans think much more favorably about rail public transportation options than they do the rubber wheeled alternatives. Even if their commute will require (as you seem passionate that it will) a short leg on a bus, this still plays out. There is very little investment with the bus system compared to the rail alternative and the developments around the two different kinds of stops shows this clearly. Developers don’t go bananas about a new bus stop, no matter what kind of bus it happens to be. On the other hand, they often times clamor to build around train stops. And these developments for the most part are akin to the sustainable, walkable communities that first sprang up around the original street car suburbs. When are we going to stop trying to solve this Twenty-First Century problem with Twentieth Century solutions?