09-01-2013, 07:46 PM
Spellbound Wrote:I'm no expert on solution to traffic problems, but wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just ban private vehicles from city centres, and use free, clean step-on-step-off buses or trams, plus cycles? No parking needed, no fumes, fewer accidents. Add a decent subway system and you don't need stuff like this.
I would think it more logical to have these systems in large, downtown, populated areas, and not allow outside traffic at all....except for delivery vehicles, ambulances, police.....
Force the cutback on personal vehicles.
I know that downtown Dallas is a large place, but if a centrally located system as this commuter train were to be railed on both opposing ends of downtown, the walk to any building would be negligible. There could be rickshaws and battery operated mini-taxi's, but no outside traffic. I can say that would be a wonderful thing.
We already have a train system buzzing around town, but if they had something like this in place in downtown, nobody would really need a vehicle.