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Originally Posted by Cirrus
The most important thing to make car-lite living appealing for people in the urban core will be practical day-to-day amenities within walking distance, like grocery stores and department stores. They don't need transit to the suburbs, they need to be able to walk to more stuff. The streetcar, as an economic development tool, is therefore vastly more important to this goal than improving buses to the suburbs. The main benefit of the streetcar is not mobility, it's development attraction.
But we all know you have a specific fetish for suburban bus routes, so I don't think any of us want to spend the next week debating it with you.
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Using streetcars are a development tool rather than an actual transit system is my big criticism of modern streetcars, but Cincinnati's system actually looks like it will be a useful circulator line.
Hopefully the service frequencies will be a 10 minutes or greater.