Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C

[ijmorlan]

That might work in some kind of authoritarian country where top down planners can design everything, but the process is much more organic here. We can predict where we might need transit, but it makes no sense to build it before we know how many would use it.

What are you talking about? All the major roads are planned and built by municipal governments, and the zoning that applies to the properties near them are controlled by the same governments. I wouldn’t use the word “authoritarian” because it connotes an extremely repressive government, way beyond anything that zoning implies, but we actually do live in a country where planners have an enormous amount of control over what gets built. For the municipality to plan for good transit access as well as good road access is perfectly reasonable and well within the scope of what zoning and planning already do.