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Denser housing in areas such as SOMA — where you're close enough to bike or walk to work if you work nearby — could actually reduce the need for better public t
by deathanatos 8y ago
Denser housing in areas such as SOMA — where you're close enough to bike or walk to work if you work nearby — could actually reduce the need for better public transit, as more people now have the option to live closer to where they work. Or at the very least, they wouldn't need to transit as far. You bemoan an hour long commute, but thousands of people in the Bay Area whose commute is far worse would welcome it.
And that's not to say that better public transit isn't something worth striving towards; it should be done together with housing. But currently, the area's general attitude is to have neither.
- romed 8y agoPutting either houses next to jobs, or jobs next to houses, would solve the problem.
- pmiller2 8y agoOf course it would, but I’m responding to someone saying “build up the Sunset,” and saying you also need to build up transit. Your criticism is not relevant. As far as an hour commute goes, if any part of SF could be made as affordable as places like Concord and Vallejo, where those mega-commutes are originating, then I’m sure people would flock to those areas. But I doubt it would be those same people: it would be tech workers living in the East Bay who would want to live in SF but don’t want roommates.