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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="Sam1"]A number of folks have noted that the emphasis on highways has contributed to urban sprawl. Agreed! At the same time many of these same folks argue for subsidized suburban commuter rail. It too contributes to urban sprawl.[/quote] Do you have any evidence to support this counter intuitive assertion?  Conventional wisdom is that communities have developed around commuter rail stations in a fairly tight "pearls on a string" pattern. [/quote] So the development that occurred on Long Island following WWII was not facilitated in part by the Long Island Railroad?  I supposed it depends on your definition of urban sprawl. I lived in New York City for eight years.  I am reasonably familiar with the area. I also lived in Melbourne, Australia for more than five years. It did not take a lot of intuition to know that commuter rail helped spawn urban sprawl in both areas. The Trinity Railway Express in Dallas has contributed to the growth of Irving, Arlington, etc.  One of the factors is the fact that the fares on the TRE are subsidized heavily.
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