Nothing pisses me off like transit "advocates" who wail at high service standards. Guy complaining on FB about the California HSR...
they're like 10-ish stories, tops, most are shorter--not what I think of as "quite tall buildings"
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OK, correction - apartment buildings need to be quite tall. Schools + offices + stores have higher density but...
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The bulk of housing stock in Tokyo is single-family detached houses, even within the 23 wards
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they don't need to be tall, they just need to be close together
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moreover, unusual to live right next to the station--usually the station area is where you walk to do errands etc even if not riding
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on the occasions that you *do* need to go out of your neighborhood, you go to the same place you'd normally go for errands, then get a train
End of conversation
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