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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you start building out transit before you can use it effectively, it can help guide the buildout. You can not only zone for many concentrations of buildings but commit to an incentive to encourage people to live there. “I want to move into this apartment building because it is a nice walkable area of shops, parks, restaurants plus they’re building a train station”

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't disagree, but building transit for hypothetical use decades down the line is expensive and very unlikely to happen.

To be clear, I'm talking about places like where I live, i.e. no businesses at all for several miles in any direction. We need corner stores, neighborhood bars and restaurants, and retail space so people want to get somewhere that isn't miles and miles away.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I’m probably spoiled by some recent projects in Boston where I live.

  • for many years there was an industrial wasteland in the fan pier area that was underdeveloped and the industry had long since moved away. It was great cheap parking if you didn’t value your car. However the city spent years developing a master plan to connect the area with transit, funded a convention center, a courthouse, and brought in developers. In only a couple years, it went from a disconnected abandoned wasteland to an easy transit ride to convention center, hotels, entertainment, courthouse, many businesses, and is arguably one of the city’s hot spots. Good riddance to all the cheap parking.
  • new development are around was it Harvard or BU hinged on a new train station and agreement with the college for immediate development
  • a couple decades adding a new subway line. Granted the areas served already had lots of people, but building the stops was eventually followed by transit oriented development