Public Transportation and Smart Growth

CreekDog

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8. that's not true. Berlin is not a very dense city, something like half that of London

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 12:53 AM

Mar 2013

yet it's transit is AMAZING.

New York City is more dense than Berlin. Both have great transit systems.

Berlin is just a city where they have covered a fairly sprawling city without a really defined or dense center with a U-bahn (urban subway), an S-bahn (a urban-suburban subway/railway) and centric rings of light rail. Yes, this system gets you out into the suburban areas amazingly well.

The USA could have such a system if it wanted to have one.

Germany insists on such systems and Berlin's and Munich's are among the best around.

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Why Berlin’s transit system rocks [View all] marmar Mar 2013 OP

Public transportation will never be as efective here in the US, due to the vast distances darkangel218 Mar 2013 #1

Within a given city in the United States, public transportation can be very effective. marmar Mar 2013 #2

Transit vs. highways DRIVES development Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2013 #4

There's developments like that near my house jollyreaper2112 Mar 2013 #6

that's not true. Berlin is not a very dense city, something like half that of London CreekDog Mar 2013 #8

Much the same is true of the Tokyo system Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2013 #3

On the names: your perception of the city is different by subway or by car. DetlefK Mar 2013 #5

Most streets in Tokyo don't have names, and Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2013 #7

it was easy to get to my station CreekDog Mar 2013 #9