Everyone knows that nobody wants to live in transit-oriented neighborhoods — it’s way too expensive!
Seriously, these trends show the need to build more and better transit lines and also to allow for greater density near our key transit nodes. These areas are desirable, which is great, but we don’t need to live in a universe where they’re so rare that only rich people can afford to live in them. We need to make the transit services that there’s clearly demand for, and given that building rail lines is expensive we need to make sure that the housing supply in their immediate vicinity grows robustly.
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