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by joomooru
1653 days ago
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Infrastructure is so hard to build because of NIMBYs, and you've indicated you're one of them. Also, it's much more costly to build infrastructure for low-density development, so you're complaining about a problem which your advocacy directly causes. Oh, and lack of public transportation directly increases traffic |
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> Also, it's much more costly to build infrastructure for low-density development, so you're complaining about a problem which your advocacy directly causes
My real complaint here is this--and I'll use a recent event as an example. In a town (not city) I used to live in, adjacent to a major city, somehow some developer got approval to build these really narrow row-home style town houses - 3 deep from the street and about 20 units wide. About 12 of these things. About a year has passed and this housing is up and ready for service. The additional roads that support that population increase will probably take at least 5 times as long. Until infrastructure improvement is strictly tied to additional housing supply and one doesn't move without the other, it doesn't benefit me to have more people in a place I live clogging up the roads.
> Oh, and lack of public transportation directly increases traffic
Goes back into antagonistic culture. How can we keep public transportation safe and without criminal elements? We need to really solve a bunch of problems first - some of which are economic (homelessness), and some of which are culture (people using these facilities for drugs and as bathrooms, etc.) before it's something I really want.