ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

[ijmorlan]

The Strong Towns approach says that you should stop building infrastructure before the destination exists. You need people to start using and paying for the service, otherwise you're just making new financial boondoggles. It should not need to be said that transit should go where people are, not where they will/might be.

Wait a minute. Isn’t the problem that we always build motor vehicle infrastructure as if people are going to use it, but we only build transit infrastructure as a last resort? Seems to me we need to build our new subdivisions to be transit-oriented.

Also it would be weird to build transit only when the destination exists unless the same applies to road construction.