The first, most important caveat is that creating new service must start small, where it makes the MOST sense, and build out from there
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This is why I concentrate exclusively on New England. There is a viable starting point (Boston), and a modest scope for growth…
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…so I don’t get distracted in what sort of rail connections will work in, say, rural Arkansas. I focus on the network *centered in Boston*
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Second big caveat—it won’t work if past mistakes are repeated. Optimize for passengers if you want passenger!
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As for the spread out aesthetic—this is the single largest obstacle. Narrow streets are largely *banned* in the USA, and even if legal…
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…nobody has any recent experience building them. Indeed, they tend to come into existence in the first place largely unplanned!
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The best that can be done here, I think, is to show Americans what narrow streets *actually look like,* this is where the internet is good
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Accounts like @IAmDavidBoxall and
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One thing to note--wherever passenger traffic in the USA *was* very busy, different companies consolidated their stations
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This is why so many larger cities and towns have a "Union Station," like the one here in Northampton
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So there are two additional advantages to focusing on New England: many large settlements from the colonial era, and better networking
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this is great but so much easier to read as a blog post
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