ENDS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Portland Streetcar, National City Lines, 5 Minute Walk
20 Sep 2016
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Why did they build tax lots commercial structures on streetcar arterials: as a way to produce revenue while waiting for the market to mature. Why did development stop on streetcar arterials between 1929 and 1980s: the depression, Bus contracts for national city lines required burning of streetcars as condition for favorable deal. 90 percent of all trip by car in many regions. Streetcars replaces by buses for losers and highways for winners . Most of america(definitely buses), associated with being a lower class human: still the case in some states today. Gradually, more and more people live in areas where transit is impossible: suburbs vs central cities: Not central cities, but more like streetcar cities". Slide 29: comparison of walking city, streetcar city, auto city. Cities chase riders: supply side not equal to demand side, city as a network: what the streetcar city is based upon.
