Hatunen writes:
> http://phoenix.about.com/od/transbus/a/lightrail.htm
Looks like it's too little, too late. Unfortunately the layout of the city
has historically been dictated by the assumption that people will move about
in private vehicles; there isn't any way to build a constrained mass transit
system such as light rail that can provide even a small fraction of the same
coverage. Even buses cannot provide it. Park and Ride doesn't help unless
you have individual vehicles waiting at each end, and if you have that, much
of the advantage of the mass transit system is negated.
Add to this the extreme climate, and it's hard to see how such a system can
ultimately succeed without a significant redesign of the metropolitan area. |