Originally Posted by
grayloon
How about through River Oaks?
Yep, NIMBY is live and well with that one. This brings up the other quandary faced with mass transit. Spread cities like Houston are a nightmare to develop mass transit in and around. We've now 7 or 8 different work centers and everything still runs downtown. Its the infrastructure cost of mass transit that makes it difficult. Instead of bike racks on the buses, some of them need to pull trailers for bikes as the number of folks wanting to use bikes to commute from the transit center to work will be able to do so.
I am told that there are cities whose downtowns were moribund are enjoying a modest resurgance for that reason, and in those same metros some of the suburban office parks are 'enjoying' a high vacancy rate. The same with residential--living near the center of the city is becoming fashionable again, and suburban properties are getting hard to unload. Perhaps, in time, some of the suburbs, or at least the exurbs, will become ghost towns.