Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’

Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by AstralStorm on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:20AM (#14399462)

The solution then is to work on advanced public transport and secondarily road network. This allows the metropolitan area to expand enhancing the availability of land to build affordable housing.

(Don't get into a suburb trap though. Mixed use is best to reduce unnecessary traffic.)

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by posguy on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:46AM (#14400004)

Sprawling cities are really bad, you end up paving over and building atop your best farmland.

Dense development is cheaper in both the short term & long term, if we remove zoning barriers to it we can have affordable, unsubsidized and non-rent controlled apartments in Seattle. Instead we mandate worthless parking be built, despite that it is extremely costly and goes unused quite often, while capping and limiting how large & tall buildings are, kneecapping sustainable, affordable housing.

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