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Re:The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It by astrodust on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:56PM (#11452487)
Completely ignoring the transit issue is remarkable. New York City serves an example of a vibrant and expensive city, but one that has a multitude of options depending on how much you're prepared to commute.

People truck in on a daily basis from New Jersey and Connecticut because there's highways and reliable (enough) rail options.

BART, from all accounts, is a total disaster and is about to completely implode. The rail project through the valley is anemic, completely inadequate for any serious commuter use.

If you can provide more options, stronger links with better commute times, you can live in places farther away without as huge a penalty on your time. It should be practical to live in Oakland and work in San Francisco, the two are so damned close, but it's a nightmare in practice.

Fix that and you're half way to solving this problem.

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Re:The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It by visarga on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:49AM (#11453395)
If the Japanese could have high speed trains in 1964, why can't an area with such density have a stellar transport service in 2016? If you increase the speed by an X factor, you get an increase of surface by X^2, moving the problem away in a place where there is low density.
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