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Lack of affordable housing near work is creating a lot of traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area. A lot of cities are adding more offices than housing. To elimi
by jakozaur 7y ago
Lack of affordable housing near work is creating a lot of traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area. A lot of cities are adding more offices than housing.
To eliminate congestion: Either you have to fix housing or add more toll to roads.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoOr do more work remotely. Or build more roads. Or build multi-level roads or tunnels.
- randycupertino 7y agoBuilding more roads just increases traffic: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-more-highways-equals-more-traffic-why-are-dots-still-ignoring-it/ https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-...
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoWhen jobs disappear and we have more automation/AI filling in for people..what are we doing to do with congested cities with decaying infrastructure. I think the govt should focus on what will happen when we reach a post-jobs future instead of ways to tax people more now. Invest in technologies and some form of universal basic services(like food, medical) and take care of infrastructure and schooling etc. they should particularly come clean and fix the unfunded pension liabilities of public sector employees in CA which is where most of the taxes are going. The biggest expense is public schools and education. Figuring how to deliver education effectively to young minds(likely with parents who won’t work because there will be fewer jobs) by disrupting education is better than trying to appease unionized teachers who are focused on inflating pensions rather than their students who suffer during strikes and walk outs.
- wbl 7y agoEver been to a city? There is a reason NYC has everything one could ever want to experience because it takes very few interested people to have a lot of people in NYC interested in a thing.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoIt’s really not helpful to enquire if I have ‘ever been to a city?’