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Quite the unimaginative take on the problem. Everyone wants to live at the beach but most regular folk would settle for being able to commute wiithin 60-90 minu
by _8j50 4y ago
Quite the unimaginative take on the problem. Everyone wants to live at the beach but most regular folk would settle for being able to commute wiithin 60-90 minutes of the beach. If your head is stuck in the box you might be thinking more cars and freeways. How about build a lot of 500Mph+ bullet trains? ~700Mi radius from santa monica,DC or Manhattan is wide enough for new cheaper houses and apartments to become economically attractive.
The 300Bi build back better plan focused on electric cars instead. There won't be another chance in the next 10-15 years sadly. I think electric car infra also has its place but solving housing issues and environmental issues at the same time would have been better I think.
- hakfoo 4y agoElectric cars are the consensus hotness because they sell to an existing paradigm. The existing automakers can swap a few parts bins and still continue to operate. The real-estate industrial complex can continue to carve off suburbs to the horizon. I feel like we could do better if we had a more top-down planned economy; we could build new city sectors around an economic engine, and ensure that housing and transit dovetail with it, rather than hoping the market haphazardly allocates stuff right.
- _8j50 4y agoI was hoping they could still give EVs a few billion and have left over for the trains. Too down planning failed a lot in the past but then again they didn't have high speed internet wich solves the communication+agility issues at the core of the failure. Not gonna happen in the US though.