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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They really need to put one in. Thoughts?[/quote]

My thought is they needed to put a very large parking garage at the King St metro. 
If there were parking, people who live there would drive and park at the metro station and take metro.

I hate, hate, hate the magical thinking of "people will use public transportation to get to public transportation despite that adding anywhere from a half hour to an hour to their commute!"  
There is no evidence that people in this area are going to abandon their cars even to go 1 mile. [/quote]

No.  The King/Callahan/Russell intersection is bad enough as is.  There is nothing difficult about the 15-20 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride from Taylor Run.  Talk about privileged. [/quote]

How often do the buses come?  I had this discussion with someone about Bethesda.  I live more like 2-2.5 miles from the metro and drive in.  It is too far to walk daily and the bus comes every half hour even in rush and would transform an 8-10 minute ride into 20+.  Unless the buses came very frequently, which isn't realistic, there is just no way I am going to take the bus despite the cost of parking.  This is particularly true since I have to get kids and get them to activities and the chance of bus routes lining up is very low.

It's simply a fantasy that some have that people will turn to public transportation to get to metro and restricting parking, as some advocate, is fool hardy.[/quote]

It is absolutely foolish to have parking rather than high density housing at any Metrorail stations.

You can get the same ridership (or higher) building very dense housing and not only does the housing not need to be subsidized like parking does it actually generates tax revenues and reduces car ownership rates, none of which is accomplished with the park and ride model.

It should not be that hard for jurisdictions to find ways to reliably feed people into suburban Metrorail stations who live close but just beyond walking distance.

The big benefit to the region, and to riders, is when public transit enables people to own and use (and store) fewer cars and the park and ride model does nothing to advance those goals and you don't get the alternate feed to the stations via bus (and bike) when everyone is driving because the scale doesn't make sense but bus routes suddenly become feasible if the 4000 people who have been driving to a station suddenly no longer have that option and biking and walking to the stations is also better if they aren't surrounded by traffic and noise and pollution.

And yes lots and lots of people in this region with highly scheduled kids (our family is among) them get to and from work every day without using a car.[/quote]

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