Philly215jawns

Yeah, Miami is a good example but I was thinking more like Vancouver's Skytrain as it also has a downtown loop and then splits into 2 lines. Detroit's wide streets should make it easy to build rail on the main corridors.

Even with the cuts SEPTA still has more bus and rail service than all of Ohio put together. The 3C's wish they could have Philly's rail network, even though at least Cleveland could use something half the size.

I don't quite remember and if I already mentioned this before then I apologize. Could Detroit's People Mover be converted into an automated light metro line and expanded to other parts of the city? Then the current PM route can be turned into a Chicago-like downtown loop for future lines.

Could they turn the Red Line into a multi-line regional rail system? The trains look more like commuter rail than a metro.

No, this sucks. For such an important hotspot downtown they should've made a classical design or build something more prominent instead of this.

Yeah, compare Columbus to Calgary's populations. Columbus is actually denser and more urban but Calgary is able to build 2 LRT lines and still keep expanding.

So what? It doesn't have the world's largest playable pipe organ.

It would be a commuter/regional rail service and not inter-city Amtrak so it wouldn't be that fast. Cleveland and NEO should have a rail network and maybe that could help Akron and other cities and CLE burbs revitalize and bring more people to live there when they see better transit options.

Do you think we'll see a commuter rail line connecting Akron & Cleveland?

Is Columbus too small for light rail? In Europe many cities that size would have multiple rail lines and even in Canada you have cities smaller than Columbus w/ light rail: Calgary, Edmonton, and recently Kitchener/Waterloo for example.

For other cities it would be the end of downtown but for Center City Philly this is just a minor blip and a chance to replace it with something better. Macy's perverted the original Wanamaker store which had a lot more than what we ended up with. Plus, the largest pipe organ in the world is still there and trashy Macy's can't take away culture and class. Yeah, if you're wondering most people came to the store to see and hear the Wanamaker organ rather than shop for overpriced goods that they can find elsewhere or online.

The careful planning done by William Penn makes this city the paragon of good urbanism. Philly is the most perfect city in the US, and the most walkable by a long shot, even compared to NYC which is quite unpleasant for walking with Manhattan's chaotic traffic and wide avenues.

Yeah despite this Ohio for some reason continues to vote for Trump. 🤮 3 MF-ing times, man.

From the renderings it looks more like something from Netherlands or Germany than typical NYC area.

Seattle really should've chosen a Vancouver-like system in the beginning, or not reject the 1970's federally funded metro plan.