Parking pricing are not an anti-car policy. How is it anti-car to be have a guaranteed spot waiting for you for a predictable price? How is it pro-car to have to spend 15 minutes circling the block for a spot?
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Parking pricing is car-neutral (assuming a constant number of spots) but it is pro-rich/anti-poor so it’s unsurprising that people don’t like it
I'm pro-car
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Fabricio Nakata
@FabricioNakata
Let's start with some pro-car reforms. Congestion pricing--you can actually get where you're trying to go! Demand-based parking pricing--always a spot around the corner! twitter.com/Noahpinion/sta…
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I'm often asked why I care so much about housing policy.
My answer is simply because never have so many suffered so much for something so stupid
a classic NIMBY move: when an actual developer shows strong intent to build a particular level of density, spend ten mins mocking up an alternative with fewer units, brag about how "amazing green gentle density with 50% affordable units" it is, even though it would never pencil
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Patrick Condon
@pmcondon2
Lots of benefits to this model of development for Jericho lands in Vancouver. 50% affordable is completely possible.
The video is here. jerichocoalition.org
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Here’s a walkable suburban apartment I developed:
• 1/2 acre lot
• 1000ft from train station
• 50 units, 75% 2br & 3br
• 0.75 parking spots/BR
• Adjacent to Trader Joe’s, food hall & shopping
But should be 500 ppl living here not 100 … the problem is Shared Parking
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my extremely cold take is that LA should not spend half a billion more on the light rail to Cerritos because a small gang of homeowners don’t want to look at trains
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Bonta Bro
@TribTowerViews
Cerritos, an affluent LA County suburb (household AMI $95k), is using litigation to force Metro to underground a LRT line for 1.6 miles in city limits to protect SFHs and a large mall from viaducts. twitter.com/numble/status/…
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Our state desperately needs world class HSR. Why are we building monumental train stations, far from city centers surrounded by seas of parking for cars. I swear our DOTs are run by sentient cement mixers.
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San Francisco Chronicle
@sfchronicle
Here’s what California’s first high-speed rail stations will look like: trib.al/gY8Br7N
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I really need San Franciscans to understand that LA has exactly the same quality of public transit that SF has.
That quality is mediocrity; you can generally get to major destinations near you slowly, and if you’re traveling more than 5 miles, set aside 1.5 hours
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djreed
@djreed
Replying to @NicoleBehnam and @nikitabier
really? LA feels shallow and immature compared to SF. no public transit and endless gridlock, impossible to get to your friends on any given night. don’t get it at all.
Paris is 80% the size of San Francisco and has 1.3 million more people. No city is “full” or “limited”
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Botoxed Buddhist
@botoxedbuddhist
Replying to @constans
No. We have limited space. I’m all for speeding up things and eliminating barriers but the priority needs to be placed on immediate production of designated affordable and free units for those most in need. Social housing and housing first programs have to be at the forefront. We… Show more
If this is what one of the largest transit agencies in CA thinks is overwhelmingly contributing to climate change - then I have a bridge to sell.
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Metro Los Angeles
@metrolosangeles
Replying to @esgarciaa and @bussit_bbLA
because idling cars are bad
We have plenty of space you just don't know how to ball
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Botoxed Buddhist
@botoxedbuddhist
Replying to @constans
No. We have limited space. I’m all for speeding up things and eliminating barriers but the priority needs to be placed on immediate production of designated affordable and free units for those most in need. Social housing and housing first programs have to be at the forefront. We… Show more
things edmonton is getting right that the supposed 'climate leader' city of seattle refuses to do.
1. allowing density off arterials. in an older neighborhood - 6+ story buildings on quiet residential streets, far off loud and toxic arterials
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It’s just breathtaking how stupid this mode of transportation is
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StreetsblogLA
@StreetsblogLA
Replying to @StreetsblogLA
Metro is adding one more north/eastbound general purpose lane - plus flyover on/off-ramps for Grand Avenue, and widening streets around the freeways (Grand and Golden Springs)
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Funny when people propose individual solutions to the housing crisis that wouldn't scale
"Just get a better job", "just move to the suburbs", etc. My brother in Christ 20M people wanna live in New York and there's only 4M apartments, it doesn't matter how good everyone's job is
Cerritos, an affluent LA County suburb (household AMI $95k), is using litigation to force Metro to underground a LRT line for 1.6 miles in city limits to protect SFHs and a large mall from viaducts.
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Los Cerritos News says LA Metro’s WSAB presentation to Cerritos City Council did not move the needle, city still suing to stop construction and will be only city along the line that will not sign a letter to Federal DOT saying they support the line.
loscerritosnews.net/2023/07/01/cer
I don’t understand why puts up with stuff like this. Across LA County, they light billions of dollars on fire to placate a small handful of homeowners.
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Bonta Bro
@TribTowerViews
Cerritos, an affluent LA County suburb (household AMI $95k), is using litigation to force Metro to underground a LRT line for 1.6 miles in city limits to protect SFHs and a large mall from viaducts. twitter.com/numble/status/…
Metro bragging about getting absolutely fleeced by cost overruns: not the flex you think it is!
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Metro Los Angeles
@metrolosangeles
Replying to @bussit_bbLA
fact check: just opened $1.8 billion regional connector, building $9 billion+ subway extension, $1.5B A Line extension to Pomona, $900M airport station, $1B subway yard expansion plus other bus and train projects in pipeline. (more)
it's a miracle america is the economic powerhouse that it is given the anti-urban nature of so many of our systems and the general attitude of the populace
It’s hard for me to imagine how anyone can see this as progress
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Thinking that maybe Santa Monica is on to something with this protected intersection thing - anyone think this will catch on?
Almost every station outside this circle is just like a square mile parking lot with a housing ban, seems squandery
July 4th weekend in Brownstone Brooklyn is always a good reminder that free on-street parking is a massive public subsidy to wealthy New Yorkers who own cars, townhouses, and vacation homes.
Can you imagine explaining to a time traveler from the 19th century that you can no longer build apartment buildings with shops downstairs?
Or you can’t build anything at all if it casts a shadow onto your neighbors property?
It would be more shocking than seeing the iPhone.
I met a dude yesterday who's almost 40 and has never had a job in his entire life. I feel like LA is one of maybe a handful of cities on planet Earth where you could meet a person like that.
They’re underpopulated because there aren’t jobs there. The whole YIMBY argument is that people move to where the jobs are—everything else is just noise
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The Suburbanist
@The_Suburbanist
There are huge swaths of cities (Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc) that have quaint characteristics that urbanists claim to love (along with permissive zoning & transit), but are underpopulated because of crime. You'll never see urbanists mention this. Instead, they target suburbs.
So how DID it become so expensive to go to college in America?
How did a degree go from being a few-thousand dollar commitment you could pay off with a part-time job on days you didn't have class, to something you need to take out tens of thousands of dollars for?
Well...