Re:Proposed CA law tells cities: Build more, or we’ll do it ...
by narrator on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:50AM
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The problem in the Peninsula is the traffic. It will just get worse with higher density. Nobody is going to walk or bike to work. Complete wonderland. Public transit is a joke and has been for the last 30 years. Higher density may lower housing costs some, but it will just make traffic worse and that's why existing residents are not in favor of it. The most practical thing would be to extend BART and have it run next to the freeway to minimize the NIMBY factor. That will never ever happen though because it costs a billion dollars a mile to build anything that carries multiple people on a track in the U.S. See the recent muni train expansion in San Francisco.
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Re:Proposed CA law tells cities: Build more, or we’ll do it ...
by skuhn on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:05AM
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One of (many) reasons why BART can't expand is NIMBYism as well. Trains are loud, they bring undesirable people to the area, the stations themselves can have crime problems.
Basically people see it as a magical portal that brings downtown Oakland and San Francisco to them, with all of the attendant problems of those areas. Not entirely untrue, but it also contributes to the inability to ever improve things in the bay area.