Our first reflexive response to this is PLEASE, PLEASE, YES! But it brings up one of the most important questions in infrastructure planning. If yet another several billion dollar transit project would be only one partial tool to address what is fundamentally a consequence of over twenty million people trying to fit in one urban area, what could be done for nine or ten billion dollars to instead *reduce* that demand? Whether by shifting loads further away from peak times, by shifts in zoning that would allow more people to live, work, and have culturally satisfying lives closer to their homes, by shifting transit usage to biking, walking, and other less infrastructure-punishing means, or, sacrilege though it is considered to so much as mention, by convincing some considerable percentage of the population of the city to flat out leave, moving to less densely populated locales? dnainfo/new-york/20131007/rego-park/mta-report-suggests-reactivating-abandoned-rockaway-rail-line
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:56:14 +0000
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