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The development ought to be mixed residential/commercial. Let’s stop adding to the housing crisis :-/
by partido3619463 5y ago
The development ought to be mixed residential/commercial. Let’s stop adding to the housing crisis :-/
- jedberg 5y agoI'd love to see more mixed use developments, but honestly that would be a terrible place to live. It's all industrial and right next to the freeway.
- technofiend 5y agoReal estate is so tight I daresay people would live there anyway, particularly if by mixed use you mean the bottom two or three floors is restaurants and other services and perhaps even a grocery to round things out with residential on top.
- deadmutex 5y agoLiving next to the freeway isn't that bad. You get used to the noise after a week, even at night.
- jedberg 5y agoMy house actually backs up to a 10 lane freeway. :) But there is a huge difference between being on the ground floor behind the wall where the freeway just sounds like a river, and being on a higher floor where you can see, hear, and smell the cars.
- deadmutex 5y agoHeh, yeah. Around floor 30 the noise is basically all gone. I don't know how some people live next to the subway though. That is super loud IMO
- ehnto 5y agoI lived next to a railway line, like it ran behind my back fence and it was a corner, so extremely screechy. I would constantly wake up to feeling like it had derailed right into my bedroom. Would not do again.
- hadlock 5y agoScreeching corner rails are solved by an automated rail greasing system. All train systems have these. If the rails are screeching, open a ticket with the local city system and have them fix the rail greasing system. Muni here was shut down for a long time and they forgot to turn back on the rail greasers and it sounded awful for a day before they were turned on/refilled.
- ehnto 5y agoIt was a commuter and transport line so the majority of the screeching came from the long transport trains in the middle of the night. I suspect those are run differently here in Australia. It happened for the entire three years I lived there so I imagine if it was just a mishap it would have been solved already.
- sokoloff 5y agoDoes greasing significantly impact braking performance?
- throwaheyy 5y agoThe grease is applied to the wheel flange on the outer rail of the curve, to minimise wear from the flange contacting the inside of the rail, which addresses some but not all screeching. Screeching can still occur because train wheels’ axles do not have a differential and one wheel travels a longer path than the other. The conical shape of the wheel profile deals with this, but some metal/metal creep between the wheels and the (ungreased top of the) rail still occurs
- nostrademons 5y agoIt's also surrounded by about 4 Superfund sites (2 AMD, TRW, and Phillips electronics) and 2 toxic groundwater plumes. Somehow this doesn't seem to matter for offices - Google's Quad campus sits over an active Superfund site, and you can periodically smell TCE in the air - but it may not be the best place to raise a family.
- jedberg 5y agoThe Bay Area has more superfund sites than anywhere else in the country, so you can't really optimize for that when choosing where to put housing, sadly.