XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: bap@shrdlu.com   
      
   On 16/01/14 18:35, Greg Goss wrote:   
   > Bernard Peek  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 15/01/14 01:21, Greg Goss wrote:   
   >>> I don't mind walking 100 feet or so between steps of the journey, but   
   >>> I don't like the half-mile walks and long waits that current public   
   >>> transit requires.   
   >>   
   >> In London you are almost always within 100 feet of a bus stop. It might   
   >> not connect directly to your destination but it connects to other routes   
   >> which probably do.   
   >   
   > In 2005, I liked apartment living, and my wife wanted a house out of   
   > town.  A townhouse at the edge of town was the compromise.  Since   
   > then, the transit train has been extended twice, the second one with a   
   > stop a half mile from my house.  The bus loops among three of the   
   > train stops, but there's only one bus route and the train line running   
   > through my mile-by-mile community.   
   >   
   > It is difficult to provide adequate bus service to suburbia.  And   
   > Calgary has bet heavily on suburbia.   
      
   It depends. I don't know Canada but if housing is built on the same   
   pattern that it is in the parts of the US I've seen then I can see why   
   it might be difficult. But if your suburbia was built the way that   
   London suburbs are it would be quite easy to run an effective and   
   profitable bus service with stops every 100 yards and multiple   
   intersecting routes. You need a high population density and I haven't   
   seen that anywhere in the US. Consider building all of your cities and   
   suburbs with the same housing density as Manhattan.   
      
      
      
      
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   Bernard Peek   
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