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I agree. Bad urban planning is endemic in the US. We need to do better. However, we've got what we've got, and the correct solution for that is more electric
by mjevans 3y ago
I agree. Bad urban planning is endemic in the US. We need to do better. However, we've got what we've got, and the correct solution for that is more electric cars and better urban planning, which is going to take a LONG time to have positive effect.
- acdha 3y agoI agree that we need electric cars but I think it’s a mistake to think of urban planning as needing to have such long gone scale. Some things are slow like planning rail lines but other things can be quick if you have the courage to do things like what Paris or London have done. An express bus lane is paint and cameras on the buses to punish scofflaws. A good bike lane needs physical barriers but a quick build design converting a parking or traffic lane is very fast - what makes it slow is the insistence that not a single parking spot be lost or driver forced to go only the speed limit. Make it easy to build ADUs or upsize detached single family houses and you can double the number of people living in many neighborhoods in a decade or less simply by not preventing existing demands.