We're accustomed to thinking of streets as discrete entities in the USA, each with a name etc, but all space between properties = street
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Make no mistake, I don't think I would have thought about them this way without spending some time in Japan and looking at other trad cities
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Streets are for self-directed travel, where there is no distinction between "driver" and "passenger" (so: walking, biking, driving alone)
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Compare with a decent railway with faregates: it's transportation from one enclosure to another; ideally the entire track is enclosed...
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...in the sense that it excludes trespassers (people walking on tracks as well as unauthorized/unscheduled private "trains")
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Are urban trains also democratic? Access is usually open, platform to platform, rather than “enclosure.”
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not democratic in the sense I'm talking about here; a railway requires immense capital and organization to be built, operated, maintained
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they can have a low barrier to use depending on how many people they carry vs how expensive they are to maintain, but...
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...they have an insanely high barrier to entry (read: it is much harder to make your own railway than to use someone else's)
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Whereas streets (spaces) have zero barrier to use and zero barrier to entry; anyone can show up on them and everywhere not enclosed is one
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