http://www.orphanroad.com/blog/2009/08/sustainable-long-island Seattle-area Transportation, Infrastructure and Land Use Issues Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:01:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.orphanroad.com/blog/2009/08/sustainable-long-island#comment-1279 Matt the Engineer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1279 I think the older towns - and especially dense ones like those in/near NYC - are set up nicely to be urban role models. Seattle was formed mostly before cars became popular, and shouldn't be too hard to convert either. It's the newer towns and cities that will be hard to bring up to speed. Imagine converting Los Angeles to a dense walkable city - it may be easier to bulldoze and start over. I think the older towns – and especially dense ones like those in/near NYC – are set up nicely to be urban role models. Seattle was formed mostly before cars became popular, and shouldn’t be too hard to convert either. It’s the newer towns and cities that will be hard to bring up to speed. Imagine converting Los Angeles to a dense walkable city – it may be easier to bulldoze and start over.

]]> http://www.orphanroad.com/blog/2009/08/sustainable-long-island#comment-1281 Frank Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1281 Totally. The infrastructure stays with us forever. Although there are walkable parts of LA (from back when it was a streetcar city), but not many of them. Totally. The infrastructure stays with us forever. Although there are walkable parts of LA (from back when it was a streetcar city), but not many of them.

]]> http://www.orphanroad.com/blog/2009/08/sustainable-long-island#comment-1466 georgel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1466 I'd say nassau county on long island is a lot more walkable then suffolk. Here you really need a car unless you plan to walk to the nearest bus station, or catch a cab to the train station. Downtown are pretty nice. Port jeff, huntington, northport etc. Here it takes two hours to get to Manhattan from suffolk county. It'd be nice to get electric train service from port jefferson to huntington, the diesel train sucks if you ask me. We do a lot of <a href="http://www.thelinklab.com/long-island-seo.html">long island seo</a> but plenty for clients in the city and 2 hour trips each way is 4 hours out of your day. I’d say nassau county on long island is a lot more walkable then suffolk. Here you really need a car unless you plan to walk to the nearest bus station, or catch a cab to the train station. Downtown are pretty nice. Port jeff, huntington, northport etc. Here it takes two hours to get to Manhattan from suffolk county. It’d be nice to get electric train service from port jefferson to huntington, the diesel train sucks if you ask me. We do a lot of long island seo but plenty for clients in the city and 2 hour trips each way is 4 hours out of your day.

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