re: #45 calochortus

Speaking as a suburbanite, I don’t understand why there isn’t dense public transit in cities linked to adequate parking facilities on the periphery. I would like nothing better than to drive from my totally-unserved-by-public-transportation home (and to be fair, it will never be possible to do transit to a reasonable distance from my home) to a parking structure that will have enough space to leave my car and just ride transit from there. But that’s not how things are set up for most of us.

Because institutionalized racism.

Why would you want to have those people who were resigned to use mass transit because they couldn’t afford cars to be able to go out to the suburbs?

Also, regional planning isn’t a really viable thing here in the States. While there are orgs like the Regional Planning Association, they have no power and make recommendations regularly ignored by those in power.

Some places do better at urban/suburban transit hubs, and density has a lot to do with it. If you have sufficient density, you can do park/ride to buses. Higher density gets you to light rail. Still higher and you’d get heavy rail/subway.

Even with density, you don’t always get what is needed, because rights of way are not available, have to be shared with freight (which takes precedent), or are cost prohibitive.

Even if you manage to get the park/ride, you have to adequately fund schedules for when people want to and from the place - and that’s a problem too.