"Hatunen" wrote in message
news:gm0ke2tq0sikt295c61t8c0ck0sptjf6rh@4ax.com...
> On 21 Aug 2006 11:07:22 -0700, "Iceman"
> wrote:
>
>>B Vaughan wrote:
>>
>>> The main problem with all mass transit in the US is low population
>>> density.
>>
>>Deliberate policies of the last fifty years have left US cities with a
>>much lower density than cities in Europe or the richer parts of Asia.
>>It doesn't have to be that way. It's a chicken and egg problem -
>>without mass transit you can't have higher density.
>
> "Deliberate policies"?? People have wanted to escape the cities
> and own a piece of the countryside for almost as long as the
> republic has existed. They started moving out to the suburbs when
> rapid transit was developed and moved in hordes once most people
> had an automobile. The same trend is happening in Europe.
>
In Britain that happened in the 1930's and post war government policy
was to build new towns to move people out of London
The trend in recent years however has been for the middle class to move
back into city centres. Once relatively poor areas like Islington have
become increasingly trendy and gentrified. The same process has been
reported in New York and Chicago so its certainly not a British phenomenom
The irony is that this has so raised property prices and rents
in the inner cities that its not the poor who have been forced to become
the commuters at a time when rising energy prices are raising
transport costs.
Keith
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