The official tumblr of amtrak — Im curious about your thoughts on accommodating...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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drpepperfucker asked:

Im curious about your thoughts on accommodating rural people car-commuting to walkable/no car cities.

I'm looking into moving to a 300 person town in the middle of a state park, and I'm not sure how any public transport could accommodate it And it's commuters (ESPECIALLY because of the state park thing and rail lines can't be built)

amtrak-official answered:

You can have parking lots on the edges of city centers and still maintain a Walkable human scaled environment. The issue is that there aren’t other options within are cities, but for rural communities we do still need to design our communities to accommodate them.

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A tumblr comment reading "no offense to OP but i think this also is kind of a narrow mindset about who public transit can accommodate. there's lots of great things happening with flexible bus systems in rural communities that just lack the funding and marketing to gain traction, for example"ALT

@ciceronian I was thinking about mentioning busses, but felt that the question was implying it was too far from a city for busses to be practical