Good stuff from @humantransit on airport transit access:http://humantransit.org/2016/03/keys-to-great-airport-transit.html …
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Money quote: "Basic math: 1000 airport employees using an airport service every day are more ridership than 100,000 air travelers using it, on average, maybe a couple of times a year." Now think about why commercial density > residential density for generating ridership
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Do you see why Japanese cities can accomplish incredibly high ridership despite being dominated by single family detached housing? Despite--or indeed because of--stations being dominated by commercial uses rather than residential ones?
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Replying to @MarketUrbanism
As I was saying! certainly more detached than...pic.twitter.com/36tFu7IRrv
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I think--given the (entirely justified) attachment Americans seem to have to detached houses, without neighbors on the other side of a wall or ceiling, it's best for urbanists to focus on the possibilities that they allow
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