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There’s actually a lot of NIMBYism around public transit in LA as well though. Before I moved out of Eagle Rock, the transit authority was looking at putting in
by claudeganon 7y ago
There’s actually a lot of NIMBYism around public transit in LA as well though. Before I moved out of Eagle Rock, the transit authority was looking at putting in an express bus lane. On apps like Nextdoor and at development meetings, there were hordes of wealthy homeowners screaming about how it would destroy the “character of the neighborhood,” bring in too many poor people, and somehow, strangely, worsen traffic.
I imagine it’s hard to do transit well in a city where a lot of people are trying to use their single family homes as an outsized, speculative investment asset.
- DataWorker 7y ago“where a lot of people are trying to use their single family homes as an outsized, speculative investment asset” Wouldn’t that be pretty much every city in America with a sizable middle class?
- claudeganon 7y agoKey word being “outsized.” Prop 13 (among other issues) has turned real estate in LA to sheer insanity relative to the age and quality of the housing stock.
- sroussey 7y agoSo much easier to gentrify a neighborhood when you price it up and cause the original residents to pay the same tax as the new neighbors.
- L_Rahman 7y agoyes, which is why building housing and transit has become a nationwide failure
- mturmon 7y agoI still live there. My 14 year old daughter was one of the ones arguing against these NIMBY homeowners at those meetings, because that bus line would connect directly to her high school. My view is that it will take time on the order of 1-3 decades for housing to densify around major arterials where this mass transit will run. At that point, it will “go somewhere people want to go.” You can see it happening in Pasadena.