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Cities have multiple tools to handle building more infrastructure as density goes up. There's land value capture which is a tax developers (or new occupants) ag
by jdavis703 9y ago
Cities have multiple tools to handle building more infrastructure as density goes up. There's land value capture which is a tax developers (or new occupants) agree to pay on any excess value created by a transit improvement (i.e. chicken before the egg). Then there are development proffers, which requires developers to pay for certain public improvements (i.e. egg before the chicken).
- ghaff 9y agoIn theory. In practice, as we see, building things like new subway lines take decades. More money certainly helps but build a few skyscrapers of residential housing over the next decade and you might get incremental subway lines to support that in fifty years or so.
- martinald 9y agoIt shouldn't take decades though. Perhaps a decade max including planning. Other cities manage to do that. It seems to be a particularly US problem that any transport project of capital size >10bn becomes a complete disaster.
- jdavis703 9y agoThen invest in things like top-end cycling infrastructure. Copenhagen has pretty bad subway infrastructure (at present it's missing some important destinations, like the central station, the M3 and M4 will create a lot of important connections). But the bike infrastructure is top-notch and high capacity. In some regards they can create a very car-lite-city by focusing so much on bicycles.