Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
by fern12 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:10PM
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>I would absolutely complain about that. Remove road lanes instead. Why would you remove trees? Are they idiots?
Do you currently have a commute that involves Mountain View? Ever driven on Shoreline when there's both a concert and an accident on the 101? Ever gotten stuck on Rengstorff or Castro when there's a Caltrain incident?
Sure, let's remove a road lane. Then all the traffic will back up and clog the residential streets.
Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
by muninn_ on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:50AM
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Ok so what do you think happens if you keep adding lanes?
Hint: traffic never gets better. It's called induced demand. I for one also don't want my world turned into a mega highway for the suburbs. Once traffic gets bad enough, people will have to find alternatives, like biking, taking the bus, or simply moving to other areas.
Re:Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
by fern12 on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:12PM
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I never said anything about adding additional car lanes. My point was, that removing trees to add a bike lane can be a good thing. Yes, it is unfortunate to remove a historical tree, but if it makes bicycling safer and takes more cars off the road, why not?
I would absolutely complain about that. Remove road lanes instead. Why would you remove trees? Are they idiots?
The rest of the stuff (ruining the character, etc...) are fine. There's no reason people can't be upset that this area they moved in to is changing because everybody else wanted to follow suit. I wouldn't want to have moved to Mountain View then all of a sudden Google shows up and now I'm dealing with all this bullshit traffic. Send Google somewhere else. They don't need to be on the coast.
You guys act like people don't have any right to wish to have their way of life preserved. Ridiculous.