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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈
@maxdubler
Municipal fragmentation is an under-appreciated structural factor driving a lot of America’s government dysfunction around housing and transportation. For example, there is one agency that is in charge of public transit in and around London, compared to 27 in the SF Bay Area.
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@north0fnorth
if you’ve never seen the map of every chicago suburb in illinois with its own local government before, prepare to be shocked x.com/chicagotribune…
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Dunkaccino
@DakarAdana
SEPTA in the Philadelphia area is chronically underfunded and under-supported by the suburban counties it serves, yet it manages to produce the best level of service possible given those constraints
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Buildhomez🌐
@buildhomez
Doesn’t have to be municipal fragmentation specifically imo. If you have a large city like NYC or Chicago and then defer to local members and process, you lost the benefit of the big city, what’s the difference, new Rochelle is now beating you
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Scruffy
@GreenBlueC
Hey Max, I grew up in a part of NW Chicago surrounded on three sides by small towns like Niles. What work is it’s a grid and the bus system in the core cool county is reliable. Suburbs wanted nothing to do with mass transit buses because they were afraid of the city folk.
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The Notorious S.E.B.
@bigseb31213
I hope that the slow moving suburban financial crisis that we are seeing eventually creates momentum for re-consolidation. Many of the first suburbs are simply not fiscally sustainable
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JaMikeyMike
@JaMikeyMike
Also government officials just don’t talk to people in other departments to the point they joke about trying to shift responsibility to another department so they don’t have to deal with it… it’s utterly infuriating
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CM Goat Wrangler
@jletanaka
People in CA are shocked when I explain to them that my hometown of Durham, NC, pop. 300k, has a city govt that runs sewer, water, transit, police, fire, land use, streets and parks, all under one roof.
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Adriano 🏡 🌈
@5Divide
And huge contributor to educational inequality and disparities in government service quality! We should have regional tax structures
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Grant
@NotSoNiceville
It’s even worse in Illinois because there are so many independent small government bodies. When we sold my uncle’s house in the SW suburbs the property was under the jurisdiction of 14 different government entities with property tax authority.
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katevt
@katevt
As a New Yorker (double the municipalities of CA with half the population), I could not agree more …
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Muhammad
@surreptilicious
SF can’t even run its own trash and recycling service because the greedy pigs that run the city can’t be trusted. Of course there are 27 agencies managing public transit, they’re probably all 75% of the way to broke on paper while also being low key money laundering operations 😂
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