[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by mkiv808

A high speed vacuum monorail on top of 95 would be fantastic. New Haven to NYC in 20 minutes.

Imagine that. CT is too stagnant to even propose such an idea.

[DarkWolf]

Originally Posted by JViello

I can't believe I'm going to argue with a teenager, but what you wrote above shows your lack of age and experience.

People live and work on main street? In a metro of 1.3 million people? No, people live in the burbs and work in the core for the most part. The highways are the transportation corridor for said region and all collect in the urban core. Having trains follow them is not ridiculous. I can guarantee you if there were commuter lots in Buckland Hills with rail, somewhere around say Day Hill road Windsor, people would park and take the train into the city for work. Guarantee it. They'd get used a hell of a lot more than the lame ass, worthless HOV lanes.

Besides if that was not the case, how, if you care to explain to you expect to get said rail lines built through so much private property. Eminent domain?

Anyhow, you can argue all you like about some Asian style world with high density towers all served by subway, trolley and bus in some condensed core but real life isn't Sim City and you can keep that pit of existence.

I'm 20 years old and about to go into College for Urban Planning. I already know alot about the topic which includes , Transit , Suburban and Urban planning. When you study Urban planning you learn that trains should not be built in the middle of highways unless there High Speed Rail. NJ refuses to build LRT in the middle of hwys so does MD and VA , you don't get the return value as you would with a main street or high populated corridor. If you have a wide boulevard you can stick it there or if you have a lightly used Freight line. Its rare that LRT lines in the US take any houses ,I haven't heard of any LRT project in the past 10 years taking houses. Now Factories have been tore down or used for LRT. And don't use the south for an example on what we should do , the Northeast and each region of the US is different. The South is more auto-Centric then the Northeast , the Northeast is 50/50 and should slowly become more transit Centric. In the Hartford region most people live and work in certain areas , and abandoned Freight lines run between them so not using them would be stupid. Highway routes may be cheaper , however no one will use them or very little ridership , you can see this with the CTA Blue line or VTA 680 LRT. Developers are not going to develop along the highway and people tend to not use the station as much due to the noise. Hench why Bus Rapid Transit is better for the highways around Hartford and it will also cost less then a LRT line which could hit a billion and the return would be immediate. Look at the Current LRT lines under construction , none are using Eminent domain , most are using wide boulevards , some are going underground or elevated and the rest are using abandoned freight lines which in the Northeast tends to go through the denser suburbs. I'm not talking about Asian Density , but a balanced density like you see in Current TOD sites.

[7express]

Originally Posted by SVTJayC

Or they just take I-84 all the way there an avoid New Haven altogether.

84 goes to the casino's??

[SVTJayC]

Originally Posted by 7express

84 goes to the casino's??

Sorry, 84 -> 9 -> 95.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by SVTJayC

Sorry, 84 -> 9 -> 95.

Again, tell me how it would make sense for folks from Orange, Woodbridge and Ansonia to go up to 84 to 691, to 9, to 95?

These are the western suburbs I was talking about, where most of the residents have to drive through downtown New Haven to get to 95.

[SVTJayC]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

Again, tell me how it would make sense for folks from Orange, Woodbridge and Ansonia to go up to 84 to 691, to 9, to 95?

These are the western suburbs I was talking about, where most of the residents have to drive through downtown New Haven to get to 95.

I don't know what to tell you. Move out of the sticks if the casino is that important to you. That's why those areas are dirt cheap. You can't have everything.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by SVTJayC

I don't know what to tell you. Move out of the sticks if the casino is that important to you. That's why those areas are dirt cheap. You can't have everything.

You're not making any sense at all.

It's not the casinos. It's the fact that many in the western suburbs trying to get to the eastern suburbs will have to navigate city streets (though I understand better now what they're doing).

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by SVTJayC

I don't know what to tell you. Move out of the sticks if the casino is that important to you. That's why those areas are dirt cheap. You can't have everything.

Wait, Woodbridge and Orange are "the sticks"? And "dirt cheap"?

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by mkiv808

Wait, Woodbridge and Orange are "the sticks"? And "dirt cheap"?

I think he meant "move out TO the sticks". I guess he was typing too fast to think.

[SVTJayC]

Originally Posted by mkiv808

Wait, Woodbridge and Orange are "the sticks"? And "dirt cheap"?

I mean compared to other parts of FFC, yes on both.