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cityfireguy t1_j5q1ob9 wrote

I swear Reddit is like the Monorail episode of the Simpsons. You think it solves all society's problems.

I saw someone suggest Robinson as a stop, makes sense right? Popular shopping destination, lots of traffic and parking...

Now think about it. Tell me where you'd like to put the one stop this train would make, then tell me how a person is meant to get to Ikea to do some shopping and Bravo for something to eat. It's a thing called The Last Mile, it's not hard to get a large group of people to one spot, the problem is then getting all those people to where they actually need to go. Nobody wants to take a train and then try to get an uber. They'd rather just drive. So they will, and you've got yourself a really expensive train nobody rides. Thought we already had that...

28X costs less than $3 and takes you to the airport. What are you trying to improve? Or do you just think trains are cool?

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leadfoot9 t1_j5qi0o8 wrote

>28X costs less than $3 and takes you to the airport. What are you trying to improve? Or do you just think trains are cool?

Capacity. Both on the vehicle and at the stops. You can't base a proper airport connection off of 200 square feet of sidewalk.

I agree that Robinson might not be a good stop location, but I think that's more a problem with Robinson than with trains. Robinson is just... a mistake that happens to have the only Ikea in the area.

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cmyk412 t1_j5tgnl1 wrote

The employees need to get to shops in Robinson too. And if IKEA isn’t going to pay their staff enough to own a car, they gotta get there somehow.

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MWBartko OP t1_j5qmuwc wrote

Cities need good infrastructure to expand. I want a city with the infrastructure and amenities to be as successful as the geography permits.

Oh also trains are really cool.

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stopblasianhate69 t1_j5xlt35 wrote

The people that would actually use it are commuters going into town from robinson and surrounding areas. Plenty of people would much rather park and ride a train than sit in traffic for 30min to travel a mile. And who in their right mind would be in the city already and commute to robinson to shop by train? These trains are for people who need to be somewhere for work not city goers whining about city accommodations not being present in a much less dense area (robinson)

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