It feels like some of this is a few months out of date. A massive city wide rezoning plan was just enacted that will increase heights and density in many of the ‘urban villages’. This will concentrate people and add more power to efforts to accelerate transit spending. ST3 is currently funded for sequential development but could be done in parallel with more money. Income tax was struck down.

I’m an optimist (who stands to be very well rewarded by the new train line) and I’m hoping the rezoning and accelerated influx leads to a big income boost that can be forced by the voters to prioritize transit.

Sure, I’m all for Musk coming in and digging us out.