03-19-2017, 01:38 PM
(03-18-2017, 05:00 PM)SammyOES2 Wrote: The transit station in Breslau has little overlap with the downtown development imo. They're serving different groups of people with realistically little overlap.
As for 'choosing where to live', we're experiencing large growth in this area and it has to go places. The whole point of building a go station in Breslau is to encourage more sustainable growth in these areas where growth is inevitable.
Note, this is another reason to put the station where it's being proposed instead of on fountain or on Shantz station. It's going to be a lot easier to collect non-drivers from the immediate surrounding sub division that is going to be built.
I agree there are different "groups" of people that are trying to be served, but it is this lack of forward thinking in the first place that have resulted in different groups of people needing to be served now.
We can't change the existing urban form overnight, but a station like this is not the answer and will only allow and encourage people to live and sprawl further and perpetuate the cycle of sprawl. I don't think the growth that will result from this station will be very sustainable at all given that most of the surrounding land is set aside for low density residential (i.e single-family homes).
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.