Retail experts have long sounded the alarm on malls in the US.

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    1 year ago

    Good walkable cities should have appropriate rural transport so you don’t need to drive into town and can take a five dollar train ride with no traffic instead that includes return fare and takes you right to main destination districts.

    Seattles ferry network, for example.

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      1 year ago

      We almost have that in Boston. You can drive in and park on the edge of the train network, then take a $2.40 ride anywhere in the system, and it gets you almost everywhere.

      Well, when the trains aren’t on fire, anyway.