I hate that this is the default thinking here. We just need to get people out of the office and we can stop wasting money on office buildings, roads and transit. We have plenty built already if we didn’t insist on forcing everyone to go somewhere every day to do something they just as easily could have done at home. Not building out more than we need also helps with that whole boiling ourselves in our own atmosphere thing too.
I’m all for having better transit, but I think that if you didn’t have to design around a peak period where everyone had to get from the suburbs to the downtown core and back, you’d be able to move the bussing around so that it provided better routes and more even coverage, and you wouldn’t necessarily have to spend more to get that result. I would advocate for that and keeping people home to see how it works in a given city before building. But I’m sure that even with reduced demand, there are cities that have less rail then they should.
TRAFFIC ON 403 IS STILL BAD.
Need to get people out of cars and onto public transit.
Make it cheap, clean, fast and reliable.
I hate that this is the default thinking here. We just need to get people out of the office and we can stop wasting money on office buildings, roads and transit. We have plenty built already if we didn’t insist on forcing everyone to go somewhere every day to do something they just as easily could have done at home. Not building out more than we need also helps with that whole boiling ourselves in our own atmosphere thing too.
Why not both?
I’m all for having better transit, but I think that if you didn’t have to design around a peak period where everyone had to get from the suburbs to the downtown core and back, you’d be able to move the bussing around so that it provided better routes and more even coverage, and you wouldn’t necessarily have to spend more to get that result. I would advocate for that and keeping people home to see how it works in a given city before building. But I’m sure that even with reduced demand, there are cities that have less rail then they should.