Thanks for your effort !
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Originally Posted by laniroj
Downtown takes the headlines, but the greater suburban area is densifying in ways I'm not sure many on this site may realize. Here are just some examples of moderately dense housing popping up in faraway lands. There are too many to link, but they are in every corner of our transit network now, the majority of which isn't even a decade old. The heavy development in places like Belleview, Lone Tree, etc are lines that have been around 20 years. To me, the future of transit looks good and we all need to take a breath and realize that we have a gem of a transit network that isn't perfect, but it will serve a meaningful purpose as the decades roll by.
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Cirrus used to provide links for photos he used as examples and I always enjoyed that.
I recognized about half of those. When you spread them out among 50 stations it has a diluting affect but the point is that this will continue to grow as you point out.
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Originally Posted by Ndj
Car-centric dense housing is still car-centric. I see that in a lot of the "density" popping up around Denver.
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In the suburbs I'd venture to guess that 95% of households have a car, some have two or three. Even if they can take advantage of light rail, most people still want a car for shopping, entertainment or going into the mountains. If they're a family with kids there's myriad reasons for needing a car - in the suburbs.
You should consider attending some of the neighborhood presentations that developers are required to give. I haven't gone in person but I have followed many for the feedback or blowback developers get for too much density, too much traffic etc. Even in Denver neighborhoods it can be hard to convince people that density and transit are good things.
Unfortunately, it's a process; a process that will take decades. But who knows maybe in time cars will become much less of a thing.
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I'm not so sure I wouldn't agree with that list
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Originally Posted by mhays
The headline is very misleading. Seattle's nowhere near the top for transit. But it does a lot of things decently, like relatively fast and frequent buses by US standards.
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Admittedly it's hard to compare Seattle with the legacy systems of large cities. But many or most of those systems are also a Hot Mess.
Transit woes mount for Boston’s beleaguered subway riders
August 7, 2022 By STEVE LeBLANC - AP News
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BOSTON (AP) — For Boston subway riders, it seems every week brings a new tale of transit woe.
Runaway trains. Subway cars belching smoke and fire. Fatal accidents. Malfunctioning station escalators. Rush hour trains running on weekend schedules. Brand-new subway cars pulled from service. Derailed construction vehicles.
The repeated chaos of the nation’s oldest subway system has stretched the nerves of riders, prompted a probe by the Federal Transit Administration and worried political leaders.
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The Chicago Transit Authority is having a crime problem including people getting shot.
While Sound Transit gets more current buzz and is still a work-in-progress there's no question the RapidRide lines which they invested a lot of money on have performed well (for the most part).