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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Do people think they’re entitled to private apartments in the most expensive cities in the world? If the cities weren't designed to inflate home values to enrich people who got in early, then yeah pretty much everybody could affor
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by rtlfe 4y ago
The size of the country is irrelevant. The vast majority of personal car trips are within a metropolitan area.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Alternately: there's a high cost to not creating a dedicated bus lane paid by everybody who rides the bus or chooses not to ride the bus because it's too slow.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Why couldn't you just build transit that's above or below the existing space for cars instead? It's basically free to paint a lane red and declare that it's only for buses. Tunnels can cost billions per mile.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Sounds like there's no other choice in Kyiv. In any US city there are hundreds of buildings with parking that people could choose to live in if that's what they want.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Anecdotally certain areas in London shops with parking near or in front of the premises seem to survive better than shops that have no parking at all. Presumably those are areas that don't have the bikes and buses the article tal
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by rtlfe 4y ago
A developer would only build a parking-free building if there are people in the area who want to live without cars. Otherwise it would be a financial disaster for them.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
1km is a good distance for walking, but you can expand it quite a bit if you have good bike infrastructure and transit. You can bike 5km in 20 minutes at a pretty leisurely pace, which I would gladly do for a good restaurant or specialty st
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> permissive zoning allowing commerce near to housing Generally people who want to reduce car dependence are advocating for this zoning alongside their advocacy for transit and bike lanes.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
This data is old, but shows that despite similar numbers of vehicles people in other countries drive many fewer miles. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Where do your groceries come from and how should these people taking care of ensuring you get to eat get around? What are you trying to say? You obviously don't need freeways and 6 lane roads running through city centers to delive
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by rtlfe 4y ago
This has been shown in studies over and over, but seemingly most businesses thinks their situation is somehow special and actively lobby against their best interest. Even 5th Ave in Manhattan, one of the busiest pedestrian areas in the US h
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> your situation is by far not the norm Yes I acknowledged this in my previous comment. But it could be normal for every city with some pretty simple changes that no mayor is willing to make.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Maybe Good luck explaining that nuance to everybody in the neighborhood who thinks their home value is the most important thing. > rising prices hurt the homeowner because it means taxes go up. That depends. Idk how other places do
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Many people will have legitimate preferences that differ from yours If your preference means that teachers can't afford homes within city limits, emissions won't improve, infrastructure can't be sustained [1], cars are t
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Sure, you're making a reasonable choice given the current reality. But it doesn't have to be that way. When I say driving should be difficult, I don't mean just make the roads worse without any other changes. I mean improve a
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Crappy for cars means crappy for buses which are public transit. Not if you give sufficient priority to buses. Cleveland has an excellent center-running BRT line: https://nacto.org/case-study/euclid-avenue-brt-clev
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> I would rather have 6x more houses that people can AFFORD to live than Not to mention the huge positive impacts this would have on walkability, transit, climate change, etc.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Ask yourself if you would like to spend 45 minutes aboard the bus system as opposed to 15 min. in a car Ask yourself how the options would be different if cities weren't so focused on cars. Edit: To be less vague - my choices to g
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Are you perhaps being a tad hyperbolic? Not even a little bit. Go read about exclusionary zoning in general or see your sibling comment's link for some reading on Vancouver specifically. > Is it fair to say that the suburb layo
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by rtlfe 4y ago
Idk if you think that statement somehow refutes my point, but it certainly doesn't.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> Changing zoning is pretty short sited if you have the goal of having an area that people love to love in. This implies that the current zoning was implemented for good reason. That's basically never the case. Most existing zoning
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> but it also takes longer to drive anywhere. Great. Driving should not be convenient in cities.
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by rtlfe 4y ago
> zoning is just one tool among many Not really. If you don't build more homes, you have to limit how many people can live there. The latter is currently accomplished by money, but could be shifted to lotteries and waitlists if ther
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by rtlfe 4y ago
The "local street bikeways" tend to actually be pretty good though. There are plenty of traffic diverters and other calming elements, unlike most North American cities that just paint sharrows and pray for the best.
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> If it turns out you have built lots and lots of the highest-density housing and there's nothing affordable in sight even after that, then guess what - you're basically in Manhattan. Your point is good, but it turns out that a
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by rtlfe 5y ago
It's the same thing. Private car ownership requires suburbs and suburbs require car ownership. In properly dense city areas (not single family zones that technically are within the limits of a city) car ownership is impractical and the
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> These small areas of hyper-convenience don’t exist without cars. That's completely backward. Here are two different takes on how cities subsidize suburbs and rural areas. https://www.brookings.edu/research/why
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> Looking at the causes of death in the developed world, I think food (fast, restaurant, processed and junk food + sugary drinks) kills way more people than cars, even when accounting for pollution, brake dust, etc. A big difference is t
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by rtlfe 5y ago
> wanting to go somewhere that’s 5 miles away is normal for any place in the world In pretty much any pre-car city you can get everything you need on a daily basis within a 10 minute walk from home, and if your job is farther you can rid

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