ComfortableInterest8 t1_j25lbft wrote on December 29, 2022 at 8:46 PM

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“ocean of parking at every station”? It’s almost like they only put parking at stations that are clear commuter stops where people can’t walk as easily to a station. Unless I’ve been missing the Gallery Place parking ramp all these years?

ColonialTransitFan95 t1_j25nlur wrote on December 29, 2022 at 9:01 PM

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.

ComfortableInterest8 t1_j25oze4 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 9:10 PM

Yeah but if you’re talking about making all these housing developments at metro centers so that people don’t need cars then you need to build way more than just housing. You need grocers, restaurants, stores, schools all within walking distance or else it starts becoming inconvenient. And why do we need to “stop subsidizing the suburbs”? Everyone doesn’t want to live downtown, or can afford it. This city runs on people who live outside of downtown, and benefits from the metro being able to reach more people. It’s 100% not perfect but this also isn’t SIMS where you can just demo and build new cities at the snap of a finger

ColonialTransitFan95 t1_j25tmyf wrote on December 29, 2022 at 9:40 PM

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.