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Posted by Michael549 on Sun Oct 23 01:46:47 2016, in response to Re: Staten Island rail tunnel., posted by randyo on Sat Oct 22 15:22:00 2016. Here's the basic problem with the usage of expressways, or highways for rapid transit - usually such car-oriented transportation facilities are oriented to be AWAY from where large numbers of folks live, but also to be accessible by car. I make a distinction between rapid transit, and long-distance commuter transportation with fewer stops in the central city areas.Think of the Brooklyn Belt Parkway and similar roadways - the basic idea was to go around the urban area - not THROUGH it - many highways and major roads were designed under such principles. For a long period of time there have been major issues with building or installing highways directly within built-up city centers, and I do not mean roads that hug the waterways. Can one have transit down the median of an expressway - yeah sure - especially for routes that have a good degree of space (miles) between stations. The transit stations might have to be of the Park and Ride variety, and due to the distances of residential areas - few riders that could or would WALK to those stations. There is a group that has proposed the building of light-rail on Staten Island using the West Shore Highway - except has been noted - that roadway in major ways exists AWAY from the populated residential areas and job centers - which of course affects the amounts of riders. One of the benefits of subway rapid transit was the ability to exist in city business districts - delivering high numbers of folks without taking up huge amounts of space. Rapid transit exists to take large numbers of folks to where they want to go especially for centralized districts. Highways, expressways, major roads, etc. exist to distribute folks over vast areas and areas of low density of folks. Mike |
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