Dakkendoofer t1_jbha2l8 wrote on March 9, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Reply to comment by SeriesRandomNumbers in There’s No Reason We Can’t Have A Metro System by Necessary-One-3713

I feel like long stretches along battlefield, sunshine, kansas exp, Glenstone, and National would be a great start. Those are the first roads I think of that have awful traffic at basically all hours

SeriesRandomNumbers t1_jbhbwsi wrote on March 9, 2023 at 1:13 AM

But then where would that go? Where are people going? If you have it along one long street say Sunshine are you willing to build a huge park-n-ride next to the Sam’s Club and close at least one lane along all of Sunshine so that someone from Nixa can drive up, park, and then pay cash to get the last couple miles to Bass Pro.how much would you pay for that ride?

Everybody wants to get to their work which is why good public transit goes from population center to work center and back. A light rail from Nixa to the medical mile to MSU/downtown to government plaza might work alright, but if you’re not interested in any of those places you still need to jump on the bus or your bike. In Springfield I usually choose my bike as Ozarks Greenways has made this place one of the better bike commuting places I’ve lived.

VaderTower t1_jbmi375 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 2:32 AM

Best comment here by far, and actually opened my eyes a bit. In my opinion you're probably right, only viable option I can think of is a Nixa to Springfield pipeline. Major stops at Cox, Mercy, MSU.