Japanese transit providers know the answer to this--public transit is a *real estate venture* before anything else.
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Replying to @380kmh
You need space for your stops, you need space for transfer facilities, and you need dedicated ROW if your frequency gets high enough.
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One more thought on transit solutions--public transit networks are fractals; you use different networks depending on your scale of travel.
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If any part of the fractal is missing or underdeveloped, all the rest of it suffers. This is a big problem in the USA.
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The top level of the public transit fractal is air travel. We manage this pretty well, no issues here.
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Below air travel, though, is a huge "missing middle;" several tiers of transportation are neglected or completely absent.
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Local bus travel is the bottom level of the public transit fractal, and here the USA at least makes an effort.
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But local transit isn't much use if it doesn't feed into regional transit, etc, all the way up to global transit. Every level counts.
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sure--part of that mentality...failure to realize that cars and transit are incompatible modes
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the transit equivalent of a car is probably a taxi--and it's not exactly cheap
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