...grouped "sets" of buses that move simultaneously. Instead of getting ten buses, one after another, through a stop, move them all at once.
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There is in fact one example of a city which WAS built according to this principle, now demolished: Kowloon Walled City.
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It solved the transportation problem in a drastic fashion; everyone who worked there also lived there. Remarkable place, RIP.
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Kowloon represents a rough draft, a trial run. The transit hubs of Japan are a second draft, more "first-world" this time.
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For this sort of truly spatial (rather than planar) development, high-capacity transport is needed on X and Y axes; elevators & trains.
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This, then, is my way of saying that cities w/o cars are possible, and cities w/o trains WERE possible...but prob won't be from now on.
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