Short waits with trains mean you need high traffic volumes, which means artificial concentrations of people...
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate
yes this is generally accomplished by commercial districts
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Replying to @380kmh
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 @380kmh
right around train stations there are taller buildings and higher traffic density.
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Replying to @380kmh
they're like 10-ish stories, tops, most are shorter--not what I think of as "quite tall buildings"
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Replying to @380kmh
OK, correction - apartment buildings need to be quite tall. Schools + offices + stores have higher density but...
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate
The bulk of housing stock in Tokyo is single-family detached houses, even within the 23 wards
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Replying to @380kmh
they don't need to be tall, they just need to be close together
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Replying to @380kmh
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
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