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by gaspard234
1955 days ago
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>it seems like Austin might just slingshot past SF in terms of issues. As a former San Franciscan that has lived in Austin for 10 years what do you think are these issues? Sure there is a lot of old school residents that don't want any change and fight every code change and infrastructure upgrade but the new residents are doing stuff like passing the new rail props. The city has built more housing in the last year than SF has in 5 years. Another thing is the exploding homeless population, the city is so angry that we got enough signatures to put the camping ban on the ballot. A certain district actually voted for a far right wing candidate whose major platform was to get rid of the homeless. That is not something that would ever happen in SF. |
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The biggest as always is public transportation. SF is a "small" city geographically but it's a nightmare to get around and I see Austin going down the same route. You have busses and MetroRail but frankly both of them operate at street level and that will just not cut it. The subway plans are good and a step in the right direction but by the time they actually finish they won't be anywhere near enough which will be viewed as a failure and then the next subway expansion will be too small and so on an so forth.
I just don't see the city getting out ahead of it's growth. Too little too late kind of thing. Obviously I don't live there so my knowledge is filtered though a set of peers with there own bias but that's my current view.