Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Mex@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The Japanese rail companies use this model, building housing, retail and hotels near their lines to increase ridership.

  Hell half of London was built this way.

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  • Highstronaught@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And most of the u.s.

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also built in anti-NIMBY defences. Easy transport for the raw materials too, the more I think about it the more wins there are.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The houses will be in insufficient quantity and in poor location to make rail transport of materials viable.

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