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Originally Posted by electricron
An interesting debacle facing Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill.
The question you failed to ask was how did they attract an additional 1 million residents without a great mass transit system?
If they had a great mass transit system in place before that growth occurred, would they have had a larger increase in residential growth or not?
I'm pretty sure the local leaders will find a way for the increase population to move about with or without great mass transit - something they have already done.
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They failed to ask that question because it wasn't relevant. Becoming a mid-sized city - or even a large city - without a decent transit system isn't that difficult. It's
functioning as a large city without a decent rail system that's a major challenge and that challenge only grows larger with the growth of the city. For a small city, sprawl mostly just has externalized problems that affect things such as the environment. But as the city grows, the costlier it gets to both the municipality and the drivers stuck in ever worsening traffic.