I mean in those areas where it just identical houses along a road in huge blocks.
How would you realisyicly solve it?
Just a couple small buses with cheap fares. That way you can be anywhere in town quick and cheap. One of the places you could go is a train station? Or stop for bigger busses?
Super block (smaller inner roads surrounded by main roads) I thinks buses at the end of the blocks as long as the inner roads arereasonabley short enough for wheel chairs to roll down from the middle down.
Bike lanes if its reasonably 10-15 minutes destination.
For nightmare suburbs (long winding roads, no side walks, no standard entry/exits) I feel like you have to have buses that go in the neighborhood. Bike lanes could still be viable here just depending. I am huge fan of the idea of bike lanes to schools for kids to reduce the burden on parents and the traffic associated.
Buses could be hybrid tram like too in some places (batteries on board, but also eltric lines to power and charge off of where they make sense).
Maglev tubes everywhere. We must start tunneling.
No, just no.
You don’t need maglev for local public transport, you don’t even need them for high-speed long distance trains.
It is also way too expensive for a local system like this
Mini maglev. Little tubes.
Here’s the proof of concept. See how the tubes connect all the areas?
https://img-us.aosomcdn.com/thumbnail/100/n0/product/2022/07/28/Ye798a18243e76711.jpg
For real though, this sort of tunnel: https://emap-romulus-prod.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2014/06/Green-Lane-sewer-TBM-naming-competition_143111-1024x683.jpg
Just big enough to fit in and blast around.
Ok, let me go through what I believe is the realistic way putting in local public transport in the suburban neighbourhoods in the US.
You first need a good bus network, every house should be with in a 10 min walk of a bus stop.
The local government then buys a few houses and plots of land, and build a metro station on them and runs a normal boring metro system under ground to either an existing metro system, or start building a metro system.
If you really want maglev you can allways install it later when the tech is mature enough.
As for the size of the tunnels, the sewer TBM you posted is way too small, there would be no space to place signals or other supporting infrastructure, it also severely limits the future tech that can be used on the sytem.
Make it so we can walk the streets without getting mugged.
This will solve so many of societies problems, and the fact billionaires are fighting so hard against it makes my blood boil.
Realistically, the easiest way is to rezone some of those areas to retail and office space, and to encourage high density construction.
Rezoning some of those buildings to low density retail and office space will reduce total traffic by allowing some people to have shorter commutes, instead of everyone jamming every highway out of town every day.
And as those buildings age and become more expensive, small sections of them can be knocked down and replaced with higher density buildings, as property values rise. Eventually the whole area with high and medium density, simply because that is what makes sense.
You can also establish commuter rail, where maybe there’s only a couple of stops, but they all go to wherever the jobs are. That will help ease congestion while property values rise enough for higher density development to make sense.
