[TrainedMonkey]

It's a chicken egg problem... as usual there is no right solution. China is the largest example of building transit infrastructure first, my understanding is that there are a lot of issues there, but most of them are due to how the effort was structured. On the other hand when housing is built first there is a lot of demand for transit infrastructure, but it becomes extremely hard and expensive as seen in every metro area in USA.

[goodSteveramos]

>when housing is built first there is a lot of demand for transit infrastructure

Not if it’s low density housing, which it will be if there is no transit.

[imtringued]

Once the houses are built and people have moved in, they are going to resist new construction. It should be pretty obvious to anyone.

[seoulmetro]

In East Asia the problem is that the developments are so good, and nearly always get done with support for infrastructure that there are so many cronies in the government or with insider knowledge that can make bank off the outcome. Leads to some serious issues.

I highly, highly doubt it would be harder for those problems to happen here. In fact I think if it ever happened, it would be a huge corrupt mess.