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Originally Posted by TakeFive
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
- Some proverb
Of course, that's true for transit too. And zoning and pollution and schools and lots of other things.
Absolutely give Denver credit for starting when Denver did. Of course, starting 20 years earlier would've been better still. And 20 years from now, if Nashville's thing gets built, we'll be praising them for doing it in 2018 while dumb dumb Memphis dilly-dallied until 2038.
But that point's not super relevant to the quality of what gets built, except to the extent that cities are influenced by federal design guidelines. The various criticisms and praises are all still true. And if we don't talk about them, we don't learn to do things better over time.