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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown
That's pretty much how it is in New York City already.
The subway costs $2.75 (recently went up) and it takes you anywhere you want to go in the city. You could travel 300 miles for $2.75 if you wanted... from any borough to any other borough. To drive across a bridge costs $10.50 with Easy Pass and $15 with cash. Then you most likely have to pay to park. Taking the subway is much easier, usually faster, and more people do it.
San Antonio won't begin to do anything like that until it's too late (which it kinda is already).
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Definitely too late for subways. Even rail would be terribly difficult. The areas of commerce/employment/education and whatever else are too spread out. TAMUSA is far far southside, while UTSA is 25-30 miles north of that. Toyota, again far southside, Brooks City Base over on the East side. Fiesta Texas and Sea World far from both and each other, the various business centers in Westover Hills... you get my point. And that doesn't even consider the expanses between major athletic facilities, (try driving from the Alamodome to the ATT Center, then to Toyota Field, and then a nice jaunt over to the Wolff).
NYC is much more tightly packed, and SA has never seemed to really have a plan to grow up and not out.