Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee...
by CalRobert on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:26AM
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But.. we agree completely. I'm not sure I follow?
New York exists because it was built before we made it illegal to build cities like it.
One of the reasons we lack other cities like it is because we made it illegal to build large buildings without huge amounts of parking and gigantic roads.
Though, would Boston not qualify?
Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee...
by infinite8s on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:16AM
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Also Philadelphia and parts of DC (basically most cities that started before cars were invented).
Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee...
by camiat on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:50PM
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>Most US cities are large sprawling villages around a small downtown where all buildings are offices and commerce, and nobody actually lives.
You just described San Jose, which brings us back into the Bay Area.
Re:The Mobility Trap: Why We'll Never Fix Congestion by Spee...
by Domenic_S on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:01AM
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San Jose has 4 high rise residential towers downtown: https://www.highrises.com/san-jose/high-rise-condos/
Because of high city density, I can walk to nearly every destination of day-to-day shopping or services. I can commute in 30-40 minutes from (more) affordable Brooklyn to job-packed Manhattan.
I can take a train if I want to read, or a bike if I want to enjoy the view.
Car traffic is pretty slow here, admittedly. But I need a car maybe once or twice a month, and Lyft provides it.
The cost of it living in an apartment, and not your own house with a lawn to tend. I'm fine with that.
Unfortunately, the US lacks another such city, except maybe Chicago. Most US cities are large sprawling villages around a small downtown where all buildings are offices and commerce, and nobody actually lives.