Better headline: New £200m train station will serve 1.8m yearly passengers, converts wasteful long-term car parking with valuable new homes and businesses, and uses more efficient transportation facilities like drop-off zones and over 1000 bicycle parking spaces.
Some local residents have not been onboard with the lack of car spaces at the new station.
If you need a car to reach the station it’s questionable to claim you’re local.
I’m from the united states Midwest and have Heard people claim to be local to cities while living 20miles away from city limits.
You guys are wild when it comes to distances. I was recently in LA and everyone insisted a 20 minutes car commute classified as “close”. On another occasion, a lady literally told me “You said it was far away. It’s only 50 miles”.
I rode a bicycle 120 miles a few years back just because I felt like it one day. I’m probably not the best just for what’s considered “reasonable”
That said, it really is the joke/meme “Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance”
Personally, I feel like if I’m more than 3 miles away, I’m not local. I may be “from the area” but I’m not “a local”
Most people I know wouldn’t consider 50 miles to be “close” though in terms of “can I pop over for a quick trip or do I need to plan my day around it”
As for car rides, like… If I’m driving I don’t mind so much because I’m occupied by trying not to die, but as a passenger anything over 5 minutes is not a “quick trip”
But what about those folks who use a car to commute from their garage to their car?
So, like every train station I have ever seen in Japan?
Are other countries not allowed to do something good if Japan did it first?
There are train stations where I would much prefer a huge car park, because they’re on the “outer perimeter” of a city region where denser movement options become viable. But this sounds like a newly developed area designed under the sensible European 15-minute-city principles; where 3 parking spaces is the region taken up by a single small shop. So to me, all the complaints here sound very much like car-brain.
This just makes me realise how bike crazy the Netherlands is, Amsterdam recently built underground bicycle parking that can hold 20,000 bicycles.
This bike parking was built underneath a canal.
