Little bit of both. In Detroit, retrofitting mass transit onto the mile roads can never happen because of the 10-15 minute walks to the mile roads, and there aren't half-mile infills. However... best practices exist for a reason, and we don't do any of that.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @planefag and
The basic problem is that transportation is a 3-way tradeoff between: * Speed * Distance between stops * Capacity. Roads get a 7 on the speed, a 10 on the stops, and a 2 on the capacity.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @planefag and
Urban transit done right is 3, 7, 10. Suburban transit done well is 5, 5, 4. Inter-city transit is 8, 1, 3 by design. And since everything is slow and also MUST carry a ton of people, that requires density (which then let you have lower headways) and short distances.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @planefag and
curious: what is your experience with urban, suburban, and intercity transit "done right"
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Urban: Market Street BART and NYC subway on their good days. There's a subway stop every 8 blocks, which unfortunately stops the train, so they don't make much forward progress, but I'm also not walking all that much, and the trains are every 5-10 at worst.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh and
Suburban: Caltrain at express stops (6 TPH), suburban BART, working NJT, that one Metro-North train I took. Moderate capacity (800 per train is standard), 4-6 TPH at any given stop, probably 35 MPH on the locals, 50-70 on the express.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh and
Unfortunately, because of the gaps, you either do TOD where your destination *is* the stop, or you Uber or hit useless suburban bus systems when you get off the trains. And they have an annoying habit of doing 1 TPH on weekends, which I get, but also shoot me now.
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Replying to @380kmh @poiThePoi and
but ok I mainly wanted to see if you had any experience w non-USA trains
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Paris to CDG, a complete disgust at Ireland's system since the entire country shuts down on Sunday and dropping the rental car is really hard (and I had to do it anyways). I'm looking forwards to Japan and Germany in 2019. Chiba to Narita in 2 hours.
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good luck! hope you have a marvelous trip, I am intending to get out to Japan again this fall
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