Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)

Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by ryandrake on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:06PM (#18780529)

Plus, you can’t just go into an area with infrastructure capable of supporting 10k people and Just Add Housing™. What about the electric grid? Water and sewer? Schools, parking, trash pickup, etc. You have to have a plan to update all of these. The simple solution of just building urban apartment blocks everywhere won’t work.

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by closeparen on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:47PM (#18781681)

We’ve built cities before, we can do it again. Infrastructure is cheaper with economies of scale than in sprawl. Remember, the people you don’t house still exist and live somewhere.

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by woah on Saturday December 29, 2018 @04:15AM (#18782773)

What a sad perspective. How did anything ever get built in the first place?

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by zozbot123 on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:47PM (#18780819)

>What about the electric grid? Water and sewer? Schools, parking, trash pickup, etc.

Property taxes can pay for these updates once the additional housing is built, it's self-financing. (Of course this won't work in CA, due to Prop 13. But then again, it was a ballot initiative, and those crazy folks in California voted for it. It's all self-inflicted pain on their part.)

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by closeparen on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:57AM (#18790031)

The usual response here is that existing residents shouldn’t be taxed to pay for later arrivals’ infrastructure needs.

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