Nothing pisses me off like transit "advocates" who wail at high service standards. Guy complaining on FB about the California HSR...
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Replying to @380kmh
...because they're designing it to have 5-minute headways. He says that's too frequent. Bro do u ENJOY waiting around on the platform?
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Short waits with trains mean you need high traffic volumes, which means artificial concentrations of people...
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yes this is generally accomplished by commercial districts
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That's not enough. You also need quite tall buildings for trains to be viable. In Tokyo, there are a lot of 1-2 level buildings, but...
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate
You do not need tall buildings for trains to be viable
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Replying to @380kmh
What's a train system competitive with cars and buses without tall buildings?
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believe most of Paris keeps things under a height limit too but I'm less familiar with it
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