XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science
From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net
In article , bap@shrdlu.com says...
>
> 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.
If it has the same housing density as Manhattan then is it not
considered "suburbs" in the US.
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