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Odd that there's no mention of mass transit for a sustainable city, just a new freeway connecting it to Phoenix.
by dcosson 9y ago
Odd that there's no mention of mass transit for a sustainable city, just a new freeway connecting it to Phoenix.
- njarboe 9y agoAutomatic electric cars.
- TulliusCicero 9y agoYeah, I'm curious whether land use/transportation model will be urbanist or more the suburban sprawl typical of the region. America is flooded with the latter (particularly for younger cities), not many with the former.
- dcosson 9y agoYeah it will be interesting to see how it plays out. It also doesn't mention anything about clean energy now that I look at it again. If it's just a Phoenix suburb but with really good fiber internet, lenient self-driving car laws, and a bunch of software contracts for the city & county offices, that doesn't seem very interesting. Another thing I just realized is that in my mind a big part of a new experimental "smart city" would be lots of dense, walkable and bike-able, mixed use neighborhoods (and public transit which also kind of requires areas around stations to be walkable). But it's way too hot to be outside for much of the year in that part of the country.
- UncleEntity 9y agoThe new freeway is supposed to connect Phoenix to Vegas, the site is already next to the I-10. They could push a train of some sort (like the planned one from Phoenix to Tucson) or the metro light rail out that far, dunno?