The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse

Re:The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Tran... by whorleater on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:52PM (#11355335)

There's a fairly low ceiling in terms of walkability within cities though. Once you exceed a certain distance, no amount of walkability is going to convince people to walk, and rent/housing prices within the walking distance tend to be much higher than those outside, thus exacerbating the issue of public transportation.

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Re:The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Tran... by dkopi on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:00PM (#11355412)

If you're able to walk for 95% of your needs, public transit, taxis, uber and zipcars solve the other 5%. If you're only able to walk for 5% of your needs, public transit isn't going to help you much.

Rent/Housing does indeed cost more in walk-able areas. That's a great signal telling us that there's a lot of demand for walk-able neighborhoods, and urban planning should allow a lot more of them.

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Re:The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Tran... by thatfrenchguy on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:37PM (#11355764)

Well going to work is probably 90% of your moving needs.

So if you live 45 minutes by train from where you're working and there is an actual train there, public transit helps you a lot.

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Re:The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Tran... by nostrebored on Thursday March 24, 2016 @07:16PM (#11357298)

That's a woefully inaccurate representation of my life and the life of my friends. Do more things.

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