No Light Rail in Vancouver!
The Antiplanner has written about transit capacities before and pointed out that an exclusive bus lane running at freeway speeds can actually move more passenger miles per hour than a subway. However, no one expects New York City to build bus lanes running at freeway speeds on Manhattan.
Instead, the city’s preferred solution is to build more subway lines. But at a cost of $2 billion per mile, they aren’t going to get very far.
So, what do you think should be done, faithful antiplanner readers? Should New York City:
- Build more subway lines
- Run more buses
- Ban cars from Manhattan Island
- Stop promoting more density and maybe even reducing densities in Manhattan.
- Change its standards (which assume a train is full when there are only three square feet per passenger) and pack ‘em in like in Tokyo.
Packed in on a Tokyo subway.
Flickr photo by 13bobby.
Just which of these policies is likely to do the most to promote livability in New York City?
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Subways Full, Take a Bus
The New York Times says that many of New York subways are running at full capacity. A chart indicates that, on the 2, 3, 4, 5, and E lines, the trains are full and they can’t run any more trains per hour.
Reprinted from The Antiplanner