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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

nxylas

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17. Simplified, perhaps, but hardly misleading

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #12)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 02:28 AM

Oct 2015

It was designed to illustrate the amount of space taken up by different modes of transportation. It wasn't intended to be a complete primer on urban planning.

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The argument for public transportation in one GIF [View all] nxylas Oct 2015 OP

They need to improve all around public transportation before yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #1

Agreed nxylas Oct 2015 #2

Definitely! yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #3

And if that "one light rail" train actually went where those people wanted to go... PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #4

Yup. FiveGoodMen Oct 2015 #12

Simplified, perhaps, but hardly misleading nxylas Oct 2015 #17

Whoa, Skinner just rec'd this thread! nxylas Oct 2015 #5

.....heh..... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #8

That's pretty graphic, WOW! Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #6

I'm just thinking about it here in Los Angeles... SoapBox Oct 2015 #7

They used to talk about extending the Disneyland monorail to LAX. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #11

"A developed country is NOT one in which the poor drive cars, bvar22 Oct 2015 #9

going to send that one to my idiots, as well. niyad Oct 2015 #16

Every urban area needs to be designed around bikes passiveporcupine Oct 2015 #10

Meanwhile in China... progressoid Oct 2015 #13

The future will be decided by us, or for us, WHEN CRABS ROAR Oct 2015 #14

I am going to send this to our transit director, and the fools who run the lousy transit system here niyad Oct 2015 #15