While mass transit is “showing signs of life” as the numbers start to rebound, cities across the country have historically invested heavily in transit linking downtown business districts to suburbs — but downtowns now are half as full as they used to be, he said. Meanwhile, newer projects built through lighter density neighborhoods tend to come with higher costs and lower returns. And Americans often choose to drive their cars whenever possible, Bloom added.
Gee, I wonder why. If we invested half as much in transit as we do car infrastructure then maybe people wouldn’t “choose” to take their cars everywhere.
I like to think that even with downtown Cincinnati being kind of empty lately that proper and well designed transit would help in both directions. Connecting the suburbanites like myself get downtown, as well as some people downtown possibly up into our commercial wasteland suburbs. At the very least I like to think the amount of people I saw riding the bus to get to work up at Kings Island would benefit from other non-Kings Island things.
I would think so. Being well connected is a good thing in its own right.