Originally Posted by
SactoDoug
There still are a lot of people opposed to public transportation and infrastructure. I don't think they have ever done the math. There are about 1.5 million people in my metropolitan area. About a quarter of them work downtown every day. There is no practical way to have anywhere close to the 350,000 parking spots available for all of those people. Sacramento is not that large of a city. It is even worse for much larger cities.
There is no way around it, public transportation is a necessity for any large metropolitan area. Anyone that denies that will have to come up with the parking spaces to prove their point. If they can't do that, they are denying reality.
Those are good points. I decided to trade a larger city for a smaller/denser seaside one and get the job/seaside/school/nursery all within walking distance.
The island is 9 sq mi (3mi x 3mi) with about 200k people. When I want a proper sprawling metropolis, I can be in the core of 15M ppl in over an hour ... London commuter belt (I guess that makes us a suburb).
Seems to work for me right now but the island can be crowded (20000 people / mi2 or so).
Very nice for cycling.
no reason for the hassle of a car really