Web of Public Transportation
. . . the city, as defined by City Country Fingers, spreads out in ribbon fashion, throughout the countryside, and is broken into Local Transport Areas. To connect the transport areas, and to maintain the flow of people and goods along the fingers of the cities, it is now necessary to create a web of public transportation.
Problem:
The system of public transportation—the entire web of airplanes, helicopters, hovercraft, trains, boats, ferries, buses, taxis, mini-trains, carts, ski-lifts, moving sidewalks—can only work if all the parts are well connected. But they usually aren't, because the different agencies in charge of various forms of public transportation have no incentives to connect to one another.
Background & Research: Not Included on the site—Go read the book!
Solution:
Treat interchanges as primary and transportation lines as secondary. Create incentives so that all the different modes of public transportation—airplanes, helicopters, ferries, boats, trains, rapid transit, buses, mini-buses, ski-lifts, escalators, travelators, elevators—plan their lines to connect the interchanges, with the hope that gradually many different lines, of many different types, will meet at every interchange. Give the local communities control over their interchanges so that they can implement the pattern by giving contracts only to those transportation companies which are willing to serve these interchanges.
Usage:
Keep all the various lines that converge on a single interchange, and their parking, within 600 feet, so that people can transfer on foot—Interchange. It is essential that the major stations be served by a good feeder system, so people are not forced to use private cars at all—Mini-Buses . . .
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