11-28-2018, 02:49 PM
(11-28-2018, 12:16 PM)creative Wrote: “They have created a safety hazard by not thinking about how humans will actually use the space. No one getting off the train and heading to KPL or Centre in the Square etc. is going to take a huge distance and time penalty (94m penalty for one-car train, 156m penalty for a two-car train) to walk back to King, cross the street, and walk back towards Duke.”
I totally agree. This is also why people who drive cars do not want to park in a garage 2 or 3 blocks from the market. It’s inconvenient!
Yes, and design in both cases should solve the problem, in the case of the LRT, either fix the entrance or make it invisible/inaccessible, in the case of parking, either increase parking substantially at enormous cost, or price parking such that market economics solves the problem.
The difference in my opinion, is that it makes sense for a transit station in the middle of downtown to provide good pedestrian connectivity, while spending extreme amounts of money to save all people who drive a 2 block walk in that same downtown, doesn't make quite as much sense.