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40 years ago a typical family was 1 main wage earner and a stay at home mum, or at least a mum with a flexible employment Now you have two people (a+b) in a ca
by isostatic 7y ago
40 years ago a typical family was 1 main wage earner and a stay at home mum, or at least a mum with a flexible employment
Now you have two people (a+b) in a career. They start off living 10 miles from their office (A + B), and meet each other at a mutual friend (f) that's 10 miles in the opposite direction
A -- a -- f -- b -- B
They then move in equidistant, 20 miles
A -- -- afb -- -- B
Then office A moves 10 miles the wrong way
A -- -- -- afb -- -- B
How do ab move closer to work?
- lostdog 7y agoYou encourage businesses to put their offices in a similar location, and on major transit routes. Then, even if A or B switch jobs their commute is still easy.
- bobthepanda 7y agoThere are lots of employers that can't be centralized in downtown areas, like - schools - hospitals - malls/retail All of those things need to be close to residents who don't necessarily live downtown or on major transit lines. And they're also all expensive to move. How many of them are well connected to transit today?
- epistasis 7y agoBoth linear options you show with afb between the workplaces is a significant improvement over current options, as current zoning makes even choosing an in between location impossible for nearly everyone. Typically both workers are required to commute in quite similar directions because development has only been allowed further and further out from existing development. Also, Moving such that one person can take transit or walk would also be a huge huge improvement in traffic.