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"Ruins" in what way?
by kspacewalk2 4y ago
"Ruins" in what way?
- bagels 4y agoCrime, traffic, noise, blight.
- kspacewalk2 4y agoHire more cops[0], build sane public transit, invest in acoustic insulation and adjust your notions of what 'blight' is, to focus on blight-by-design of cookie-cutter suburbia. [0] https://thecrimereport.org/2022/09/14/the-u-s-is-under-policed-study/ https://thecrimereport.org/2022/09/14/the-u-s-is-under-polic...
- bagels 4y agoThe insulation might help when I'm in the house, but not trying to, for instance, read a book in the back yard. Does anyone not think that broken down cars growing literal trees in them, broken glass, and garbage in people's yards are not blight? That's what I find just a mile from here where there are duplexes and apartment buildings.
- CalRobert 4y agoTwo of those are caused by cars, not people.
- LgWoodenBadger 4y agoI lived on a quiet street that became an optimized shortcut (no stop lights, fewest stop signs) for all the new-construction dwellers, most of whom had zero regard for speed limits. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but the benefits likely outweigh the drawbacks. FWIW, the most the township would do is setup a radar trailer (zero enforcement) and new stop signs were not allowed for traffic control purposes. I never got them to add one for safety purposes either, even though a speeder clobbered a mailbox one house up from the school bus stop.
- CalRobert 4y agoThis is a great illustration of how we can address this by adding people but removing cars. Make the street narrower, remove parking, add transit, add bike infra, etc.