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Current suburbs are quite low-density due to roads and front-yards pointlessly wasting space. It works fine with Japanese-style suburbs, but car-centric suburbs
by Qwertious 2y ago
Current suburbs are quite low-density due to roads and front-yards pointlessly wasting space. It works fine with Japanese-style suburbs, but car-centric suburbs need those front yards to cut down on the sound of fast-moving cars directly outside the house (and reducing speed limits in suburbs down to 5 or 10 is utterly unthinkable for most people), and they also need a 2-car garage with another 2 car spots on the driveway and then another 3 spots on the curb, in case they need to park 7 cars at once for some reason and all their neighbours do too.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoIt works in plenty of Australian suburbs, which seem pretty car centric. I don’t know how they compare to Japanese suburbs.
- Qwertious 2y agoAustralian housing prices are literally some of the highest in the world; we're in the middle of a housing crisis. It might "work" in that sense that with sufficient mineral exports, we haven't gone bankrupt yet, but it's horrifically inefficient. Sydney housing prices are higher than in Tokyo.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoThat’s totally irrelevant to whether you can implement public transit in a suburb. If you were actually talking about Australian suburbs in your first comment then you were wrong.