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Coming here to whine and bitch.
>city builds a giant corporate park that's 5 miles long to south of city, about 10-15 miles south of city center
>3/4 of jobs are located here
>puts a light rail along it
>supposed to make it fast and easy for people to get to work there
>most people still drive
>the corporate park is built in suburb style with windy roads that fuck up pedestrian efficiency, sprawled to hell and back
>scant to no sidewalks, no streetlights, bunch of residential and single-story business plaza sprawl all over it with giant parking lots
>got accepted to job there, think it's great, I'll be able to train to work
>job is actually 3 miles from the light rail station
>can either spend an hour morning and evening walking through a cageshitfest where there are no other peds and cars don't know to watch out for us
>in the dark...in the snow...surrounded by fucking prairie dogs that probably have rabies or bubonic plague and dig holes all over the dirt
>can drive entire way (don't have car, but I bet this is why few people actually do use the light rail, because no one built the shit close enough to the station for it to be viable)
>can bike-train combo until snow hits, then it's walk-a-bike in the fucking blizzard on windy roads with no sidewalks or streetlights
>can wait an age for the bus that travels from station to jobsite, probably fucking comes once an hour at best
Great planning there. What's the point of building an artificial corporate park that's supposed to be public transit friendly and modernize the city if you DON'T BUILD THE SHIT A REASONABLE DISTANCE FROM THE LIGHT RAIL STATIONS.
I'm already fucking mad. It wouldn't be a problem to bike-and-train but for the snow that will come.
They had a good idea. And then they ruined it by allowing unrestrained sprawl that invalidates the "everyone can ride the train to work so there will be no more highway of perma-traffic causing smog problems" idea.
