ColonialTransitFan95

ColonialTransitFan95 t1_j25tmyf wrote

Well if you want to live in the suburbs then you can, but the people downtown should be paying for it (this is how it works). We should be working on missing middle housing (that way people have choice other then high rise downtown or suburban McMansion). No one is saying to just bulldoze the suburbs, it will take time and people know this. We shouldn’t be building more sprawl. You really need to look up what urbanism really is. Sounds like you are getting some bad info about it.

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ColonialTransitFan95 t1_j25nlur wrote

Pretty much all the suburban stations minus a few have an ocean of parking. If the end of the line stations what some parking for the people living in true rural areas then that is fine. What isn’t fine is designing the system as a glorified parking lot shuttle. Building things around stations reduces the need for all that parking. We definitely need more affordable housing near metro I agree. We need to stop subsidizing the suburbs and the exurbs.

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ColonialTransitFan95 t1_j11w8yp wrote

Can I ask the same question but in a different way?

Why should the people in city pay to subsidize the suburbs? It’s the people in suburbs job pay for the infrastructure required to allow the suburb to work.

The difference is free higher education would benefit the population, suburbs sprawl doesn’t.

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ColonialTransitFan95 t1_iy6zpa8 wrote

A blind friend of mine asked me to help him cross the street. We had the walk sign, but I still did my double check. All car stopped, so we started crossing. Half way through crossing some oversized SUV with MD tags decides they aren’t going wait any more, blows through the red light and almost running us both over.

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