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Traffic is horrible in the Bay Area. Is the answer really “more people”? If it is, it needs to be coupled with infrastructure investment.
by ec109685 5y ago
Traffic is horrible in the Bay Area. Is the answer really “more people”? If it is, it needs to be coupled with infrastructure investment.
- Tiktaalik 5y agoIt's an easily addressable issue. We've had the technology since the 19th century, but just as there are the nimbys disingenuously working hard to their benefit to ensure that new housing for workers isn't created, you have people like Elon Musk and others in the car/oil industry working hard to defeat rapid public transit and other public works.
- chmod600 5y agoThe freeway is jammed by people who can't live close to their job and entertainment because of bad housing policy. Restricting the housing supply might very well be the cause of traffic, not the solution to it.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoThere are two causes at work here: 1. Build great transportation infrastructure so it is easy to get to work from outlying suburbs. That takes the pressure off on the need to buy centrally. This doesn't have to be (and probably shouldn't be) just freeways, it could be subways and urban rail. 2. Build very dense housing so people can live near their jobs, thus not needed as much infrastructure. The best cities (e.g. Tokyo) do both.
- ec109685 5y agoThat assumes if a family has two income earners, they both work in the same city.