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Re:Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every Ci... by georgeburdell on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:39AM (#20326427)
To be clear, I’m not talking about visitor parking. Even with garages and a driveway, residential parking spills into the street in suburban neighborhoods.

Suburban Portland is not Chicago or Singapore. There is no competing transit infrastructure outside of a few main thoroughfares. Also it’s tone deaf for you to propose parking fees for residents in response to the increased number of cars brought about by a density increase in suburban neighborhoods, ostensibly to solve a housing affordability crisis.

Single family neighborhoods need to just be razed to the ground and reconstructed in a sustainable manner, not this bandaid

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Re:Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every Ci... by bluGill on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:36PM (#20327065)
Transit can be made better by adding more people. The more people who take transit the more routes transit can afford, the more people who can. The cycle re-enforces itself. However this only works when there are enough people in the first place. So adding density makes transit work.
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