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Originally Posted by navyweaxguy
The mall is like a gravity well. As long as it stays setup the way it is, people will not wander off of 16th to do any shopping unless there is a destination store. This is especially true for tourists and convention traffic.
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I enjoyed watching all of the empty "mall shuttles" rumbling down 15th yesterday. That was certainly a failed experiment from a transit standpoint. Of course, it'll be hailed as a victory because of some perceived new vitality on the mall without the buses there. It's hard to prove what didn't happen - the trips not taken; the people inconvenienced; the folks who won't come back; etc. because the shuttle wasn't there to move them around downtown. We'd burn Rome to get a bike lane on the mall.
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