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    Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016

    I think two threads are in order today re: trainpoasting First will concern commercial space, second aesthetic rural trains & Acadie

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      2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        When I talk about commercial space, I refer to exclusively pedestrian places where things are bought and sold, eg. the interior of a shop.

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      3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        The fact that *every customer is a pedestrian* is something which, even in the USA, is difficult to avoid. Drive thru is only exception.

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      4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Naturally, you do not need to be inside a specific building to be in a commercial space. Open-air marketplaces, arcades, etc, qualify too.

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      5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        But even in the market, you typically have a collection of stalls or stands, and in an arcade, a row of open-front shops.

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      6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        So with this in mind, you can start to think of a geometry of commerce, in which the individual establishment = a point.

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      7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        There are two kinds of transportation that are relevant here: there is getting to and from the commercial space, and navigating within it.

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      8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        The mode of transportation for the latter is always on foot--but for the former, it depends on the sort of commercial space.

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      9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        So, an isolated "point," an establishment without neighbors, may be reached by walking, biking, or driving, but lacks demand for transit.

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      10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        But move from a point to a line--that is, a row of adjacent establishments--and the spatial demands for car access increase drastically.

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      11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Move up to a plane--establishments in a non-linear cluster--and the parking requirements start getting unmanageable.

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      12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        At this point, with so many businesses, you must either have something like an outlet mall with fields of parking...

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      13. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        ...or, as is far more often the case, you must have something like a commercial district in a city, with walking-distance houses & transit.

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      14. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Google is helpfully highlighting commercial spaces--this shows point & three varieties of line (small, large, urban)pic.twitter.com/FH62kcZtHb

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      15. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Once your commercial geometry is a plane instead of a line or point, it starts to be impossible to rely solely on cars to bring customers...

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      16. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        ...it becomes essential to have residences w/in walking distance and some sort of transit as well as parking.pic.twitter.com/ajMblKKnYw

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      17. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        The three examples shown are small American city (bus hub), large American city (bus hub & subway stop), & large Japanese city (train & bus)

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      18. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        So far we've dealt with points, lines, and planes: single establishment, several in a row, several in an area. You know what's next...

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      19. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        ...three commercial dimensions. Establishments on multiple stacked planes. Enormous amount customer traffic.pic.twitter.com/VKjrSEEyFb

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      20. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        You can manage lines with just cars, planes with just buses...but you *need* the capacity that rail provides to manage spaces.

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      21. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        What's so special about rail, though? Why can it provide the most capacity? A brief digression about capacity multipliers...

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      22. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Consider all modes of transportation for what they are--pedestrian movers. You are a pedestrian before you get on, and after you get off.

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      23. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        A simple vehicle like a bicycle can move one (sometimes two) person at faster-than-walking speed. It accelerates, but doesn't multiply.

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      24. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Something like a car, on the other hand, has multiple seats--so it can move one person, sure, but also 5 or 6; it has variable capacity.

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      25. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        If you have a single lane of road, cars only, then it has a variable *passenger* throughput even at a fixed *vehicular* throughput.

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      26. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Number of seats is the most basic capacity multiplier: a variable which magnifies the frequency on a corridor.

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      27. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Frequency = vehicular throughput = cars (or buses, etc) per hour. 2,000 cars per hour could be 2,000 people or 10,000 people.

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      28. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Vehicular throughput has severe space constraints, so multipliers are important. To move 10,000 people by car, you need...

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      29. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        ...either one lane of road, at 60 mph, w cars carrying 5 people on average, w/o stopping...or 5 lanes, 1 person avg, same speed, no stopping

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      30. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        The higher the capacity multiplier, the lower the frequency you need to achieve the same throughput.

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      31. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 15 Sep 2016
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        Buses have 10 times as many seats as cars, which is a huge boost. Trains have 10 times as many as buses, as they are effectively...

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