Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo...
by closeparen on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:11AM
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>Try traveling to Europe or Japan sometime
Most people shop for housing where there job and family are; international migration is a big deal. Japan is very hard to immigrate to if you lack Japanese ancestry.
>Continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity
>Then you need to change the laws.
Land use policy is made by a small, elite, politically active subset of incumbents. People looking for a place to live, and choosing the best of the available options for their circumstances, are not to blame for the abysmal nature of the available options. This is the whole problem. Market demand has little to no influence on what can be built. It's inappropriate to look down on people for moving to suburbia. The scorn is rightly placed with activists and politicians for crippling our cities so badly that suburbia manages to be better.
>Here in the DC area, it's extremely common.
The data say 32 minutes [0]. This is high compared to the national 25, but no, 1-2 hours is not the norm even there.
Most people shop for housing where there job and family are; international migration is a big deal. Japan is very hard to immigrate to if you lack Japanese ancestry.
>Continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity
>Then you need to change the laws.
Land use policy is made by a small, elite, politically active subset of incumbents. People looking for a place to live, and choosing the best of the available options for their circumstances, are not to blame for the abysmal nature of the available options. This is the whole problem. Market demand has little to no influence on what can be built. It's inappropriate to look down on people for moving to suburbia. The scorn is rightly placed with activists and politicians for crippling our cities so badly that suburbia manages to be better.
>Here in the DC area, it's extremely common.
The data say 32 minutes [0]. This is high compared to the national 25, but no, 1-2 hours is not the norm even there.
[0] https://wtop.com/traffic/2017/04/dc-area-has-2nd-longest-ave...