From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Sancho Panza"  wrote in message   
   news:Bs5Cv.100928$Ji3.67999@fx16.iad...   
   > On 7/29/2014 6:36 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
   >> On 29-Jul-14 09:29, conklin wrote:   
   >>>> Glen Labah  wrote:   
   >>>>> The Seattle Transit Blog posted a list of what they consider the 50   
   >>>>> busiest airports, and compare trying to get from them to downtown by   
   >>>>> transit vs. a taxi.  Some cities are faster by transit, but of course   
   >>>>> most are slower.   
   >>>   
   >>> Interesting but most people are NOT traveling to city centers, but to   
   >>> other suburbs.   
   >>   
   >> ... and putting the airport in one suburb means it's further to other   
   >> suburbs on the other side of downtown.  Not very efficient.   
   >>   
   > That is a big reason that so many cities have beltways, a highly useful   
   > design.   
   >   
   >   
      
   And a major reason why trains don't do very well in the past was that they   
   serve only a tiny minority of places people need to go to.  And people did   
   not live downtown in the past. Downtown was a place of business.  Now,   
   Manhattan is a place for the very rich or the very poor and everyone else   
   has to live far away, a medieval concept where the servants and the poor   
   were locked outside the city gates at night.  Locally the downtown boosters,   
   recognizing that tobacco factories are goine for good, are moving people   
   into the old buildings or building 4-story apartments, all out of wood, just   
   awaiting a fire.  So downtowns today are just another suburb in terms of   
   housing, one of many destinations.   
      
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