>>2027404I'm in Europe, I just don't really understand what the confusion is. If they've built tracks somewhere where nobody lives, why would they not then zone housing around it? What's even the point of the track, if it goes from nowhere to nowhere. For example, when they built those subway lines in Stockholm back in the day, they built them with the intention that they will get new suburbs around the stations. Or more recently here in western Mongolia, they built this suburban light rail line, and the design docs already had estimates for how many new residents and workplaces each area will have in 2030. These lines are 50 percent just a zoning tool, they gradually run out of unbuilt land, so then they zone denser areas around a high capacity transit route. Which seems doubly logical if they're actually aiming to have people use the transit instead of driving
