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The housing crisis is perpetuated by a lack of coherent planning. It's also why transit is suboptimal. It definitely doesn't help that it isn't one big city, it

The housing crisis is perpetuated by a lack of coherent planning. It's also why transit is suboptimal. It definitely doesn't help that it isn't one big city, it's actively detrimental.

babesh 5y ago
It definitely helps the quality of life of the Peninsula to not be embroiled in SF politics. Tons of SF natives moved to the Peninsula for those reasons. You don't need a large city to coordinate transportation. By that logic, the whole Bay Area should be one city. After all, you have BART running to the East Bay, South Bay, and a tiny part of the Peninsula.
Apocryphon 5y ago
Maybe the best solution is some sort of regional association or federation of governments working on multi-jurisdictional concerns. Representing an entire area you could say.
- babesh 5y ago
  You mean like the ones they already have? Like the Bay Area Regional Transit authority also known as BART?
babesh 5y ago
There is planning. Each city is obligated to increase housing by a given amount. There are transit villages being developed. The proximal problem is that the SF government is too inefficient and slow. BART is actually more efficient than SF is at building stations. Why would you want drag more SF politics into something that runs better than it?
babesh 5y ago
It doesn't make sense for the Bay to be one big city. There is this giant thing in the middle of it that greatly increases travel time. It is called the Bay. Even travel down the Peninsula is extended because of the linearity of the Peninsula (you travel up and down it). It makes more sense for there to be regional centers. Develop Oakland. Develop San Jose even more. Maybe turn Hayward into a regional hub (fat chance but the geography is interesting). San Mateo is growing for a reason. Hook the centers together with fast regional point to point transit. There should be no stop trains between SF, San Mateo, San Jose, Oakland, and Hayward. It is all incredibly obvious if you look at a map. It is all driven by geography. This is also the reason that Mountain View and Fremont have grown rapidly. Just look at the map. Maybe add them as regional centers.
- babesh 5y ago
  The strength of the other regional centers will force SF to compete for companies and also for residents via quality of life.

The housing crisis is perpetuated by a lack of coherent planning. It's also why transit is suboptimal. It definitely doesn't help that it isn't one big city, it's actively detrimental.

babesh 5y ago

It definitely helps the quality of life of the Peninsula to not be embroiled in SF politics. Tons of SF natives moved to the Peninsula for those reasons. You don't need a large city to coordinate transportation. By that logic, the whole Bay Area should be one city. After all, you have BART running to the East Bay, South Bay, and a tiny part of the Peninsula.

Apocryphon 5y ago

Maybe the best solution is some sort of regional association or federation of governments working on multi-jurisdictional concerns. Representing an entire area you could say.

babesh 5y ago
You mean like the ones they already have? Like the Bay Area Regional Transit authority also known as BART?

babesh 5y ago

There is planning. Each city is obligated to increase housing by a given amount. There are transit villages being developed. The proximal problem is that the SF government is too inefficient and slow. BART is actually more efficient than SF is at building stations. Why would you want drag more SF politics into something that runs better than it?

babesh 5y ago

It doesn't make sense for the Bay to be one big city. There is this giant thing in the middle of it that greatly increases travel time. It is called the Bay. Even travel down the Peninsula is extended because of the linearity of the Peninsula (you travel up and down it). It makes more sense for there to be regional centers. Develop Oakland. Develop San Jose even more. Maybe turn Hayward into a regional hub (fat chance but the geography is interesting). San Mateo is growing for a reason. Hook the centers together with fast regional point to point transit. There should be no stop trains between SF, San Mateo, San Jose, Oakland, and Hayward. It is all incredibly obvious if you look at a map. It is all driven by geography. This is also the reason that Mountain View and Fremont have grown rapidly. Just look at the map. Maybe add them as regional centers.

babesh 5y ago
The strength of the other regional centers will force SF to compete for companies and also for residents via quality of life.