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I've been thinking about this. Unless you live on the light rail it's just a glorified park and ride into downtown.
But downtown isn't so much laid out enough where you can do your business walking it...neither chapel hill.
So I guess I'm trying to understand the existing demographic of users. Or is this a if you build it they will come solution to try to get density and transformation around the line?
I've been thinking about this. Unless you live on the light rail it's just a glorified park and ride into downtown.
I think lots of the light rail systems in the US are like that (or at least some parts of the light rail systems in the US), so I'm not too surprised of it being like that here either. A light rail system, especially a "starter line" can only do so much, you have to pick your battles on where it should, can and will go.
I do find it somewhat ironic that places like Meadowmont which seem to have been built with something like future light rail in mind are against it going through the village or at least a bunch of the people living there are against it. So now people will have to walk across NC-54 to get on at a station.
I like the fact most of the track will be elevated, which of course adds to the cost, but it will speed up the trains and have less stop and go riding as compared to when the entire line is in a roadway and has to stop at every red light.
Just for starters...the companies that build it, a handful of developers, some politicians that get their palms greased...
As with all public projects, you take the good with the bad. There's a lot of preexisting infrastructure being connected in the video. Let alone what will come down the road, which answers OP's question.
That being said, there are multiple threads on this. None of us are going to have anything new to say here about this dead horse. If you think your opinion is novel, go to one of the public hearings and tell them you've been thinking.
But downtown isn't so much laid out enough where you can do your business walking it...neither chapel hill.
Which downtown and what would be your business?
I'd happily take it from Chapel Hill to go see the Bulls play and have a bite to eat kinda business. and I imagine a lot of people who live in the other city would take it to work at the hospital.
Unless you live on the light rail it's just a glorified park and ride...
Isn't that what a lot of rail transport is? I know that's how my sister's family uses it in DC. They drive to the parking lot, park and take the train to the stop closest to their work.
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Isn't that what a lot of rail transport is? I know that's how my sister's family uses it in DC. They drive to the parking lot, park and take the train to the stop closest to their work.
It's mostly like that in suburban areas that are not dense. Generally, the older and denser the city, the less that it is a "park and ride" and more a "walk and ride."
In DC, the Metro system doesn't have parking in most of the DC stations and in only a few of the stations outside DC, but inside the beltway. In those cases, most pepole would walk or bike to their stop (or take a bus if too far). Once you start getting farther out into the suburbs, there tend to be parking lots for people to do what you suggest - park and ride. I almost always lived within walking distance of the Metro so I wouldn't need to drive to a stop. It's very freeing.
Yes, my sister's family is in Fairfax Co, near Clifton and Centerville.
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