Urban density around major train stations: 125th Street in NYC vs Kyodo in Tokyo
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Urban density around major train stations: 125th Street in NYC vs Kyodo in Tokyo
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Density isn't about huge buildings with hundreds of units! it's about many small buildings CLOSE TOGETHER--look at how much space is wasted even in NYC!
Anyone know how many daily boards and alights there are at 125th? Kyodo gets 76,363 every day
nearby streets in Harlem and Kyodo--do you see what I mean about wasting space?pic.twitter.com/mg5i2l0TOj
One of the main streets converging on Kyodo Station, with a car visible for comparison--look how much traffic is on foot! But I bet many of them don't live nearby, and instead came here by trainpic.twitter.com/EvhdaEUHSK
There are some wider roads that converge on Kyodo, too: moderately-sized roads from the north and the west, and a very wide one (still just two lanes lol) from the east (the direction of central Tokyo) The last one is so wide that they actually named it (Yurinoki Street)pic.twitter.com/GtMAPbuMHg
compare with street widths near 125th...pic.twitter.com/JKoGyrWx4y
Get what you're saying but something like that is more difficult to fix retroactively. Should they build where the sidewalks/trees are now and cut out some lanes? Honest question.
NYC and grid cities like it are harder to "fix" than a city like Boston bc of the primacy of the road network in laying out the city...but for very wide streets, I would first opt for building in the *center* and converting the street to a pair of narrower ones
This also involves getting rid of on-street parking, which is possibly the worst use of road space imaginable. Aside from the center, most retrofitting would take place on a plot-by-plot basis as buildings get redeveloped, replaced, etc
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