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More housing is the answer to less transit
- austincheney 6y agoThis article is written from the cluelessness of somebody confined to New York. As somebody who lives in one of the fastest growing areas of perhaps the fastest growing large city in the US this issue is incredibly simple. The more housing there is the more people there will be and thus the more traffic congestion there will be. This is true regardless of availability of public transit or road size. Billions of dollars are spent here yearly to widen freeways and eliminate choke points but it still does not keep pace with the growth in population. The problem is due to numbers that are easy to calculate and simple to forecast.