[mhays]

Selling rail as the route to a denser, more urban future can be tough.

In my city, we've done very little upzoning around stations despite general acceptance of infill and fairly good transit ridership. It sounds like a far harder case in cities like Nashville and Charlotte.

If it's hard to spiderweb efficient bus lines all over town, it sounds like park-n-rides and drop-offs are the main way of getting new converts, with density happening more gradually.