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The one solution that no one will fucking mention is to increase road capacity to zoning ratios. The city planners are allowing congestion by allowing density t
by asdfadfadsf 7y ago
The one solution that no one will fucking mention is to increase road capacity to zoning ratios. The city planners are allowing congestion by allowing density that is too high, then everyone has to fucking drive with 1 million other people in the same space. Also, it doesn't have to be JUST road capacity. Putting in some actual subway capacity would allow the higher densities, but you have special interest groups fighting that shit NON stop.
No one WANTS to take a side street over a freeway. You do it because the freeway is jammed. This means the city planning has FAILED. The money has been misused. I read somewhere that homeless in LA are having housing built for them. Sounds great, right? The cost per unit of housing is something like $450,000 .
- ThrustVectoring 7y agoCapacity and congestion is the wrong way to think about traffic planning. The natural response to capacity increases is to accept a longer-distance commute in exchange for lower housing costs. Instead, it's better to think in terms of accessibility - people need to go to work, buy groceries, etc, and the system must be able to accommodate those goals within reasonable amounts of time. Crucially, this means that it's just as valid to ensure that people live within a fifteen minute walk to a grocery store as it is to ensure that traffic can allow people to drive five miles to the grocery store within fifteen minutes. Density itself can help traffic, so long as it is properly located with respect to jobs and various amenities.