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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ Hell no it won't. Are you kidding me?
At least not in the form of people walking to work from their $2 million mansions in Lincoln Park. Lower East Side of Manhattan circa 1912 called, it wants Khantilever back 
Lets not kid ourselves and pretend that transit is just superfluous and unnecessary. With the kinds of density they are proposing, it's going to come with massive, massive, massive amounts of parking and massive, massive, massive amounts of congestion with all of the people who will chose to drive there, without a frequent and dedicated transit ROW getting people to and fro. |
And again, I'm saying that it would--in the long-term--induce changes in land-use patterns and households in the area. You keep approaching this from the perspective of neighborhoods being fixed in household composition and density. But even if this development were to deliver transit upgrades which make it essentially able to independently supply itself with workers from outside, it would
still spur changes in the surrounding areas.
I'm not at all saying that transit is superfluous. And in the interest of finding agreement, I should be clear that ideally I would like to see real mass transit serve this development and others to come along the riverfront. My only issue is the attitude that the development needs to deliver infrastructure such that it doesn't affect its neighbors.
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