Solving San Francisco's housing crisis with narrow, human-scale streets
@smallax wrote: It certainly is a very efficient way to build, but efficient systems can be very fragile. Less cars = less mobility= less chance of survival if there is EVER a reason to leave. Any...
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@nonofyrpenguins wrote: This is a great idea. However, outside of those brilliant Smart Cars that can park ass-end to the curb, the ante on parking will be raised to a level found in Rome, Italy. And,...
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@jansob1 wrote: Europe doesn't face the same earthquake threat as SF. When the facade of a building falls into the street it doesn't matter a whole lot how narrow the truck is....it matters how wide...
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Solving San Francisco's housing crisis with narrow, human-scale streets
@albill wrote: smallax: I beg you to go to www.democratesagainstagenda21.com for the documentation. 99% of people advocating these types of projects are good intentioned, but they cannot see that it...
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@Chipsa wrote: Agreed. This a wonderful solution to the wrong problem. The reason why affordable housing is disappearing is because the supply is constrained, and demand is not. SF needs more...
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@mcavory wrote: Housing ramps are an architectural issue, I assume they're not allowed to breach the public street anyways. Buses go right to your door in America? I think it's a valid concern,...
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@mcavory wrote: I don't even know where that is. Why do I have to move!? Read full topic
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@gwwar wrote: San Francisco has been pretty successful with road diets, with the most extreme example being the embarcadero which used to be a freeway. Good luck trying to get any housing built into...
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@daneel wrote: Ah, the Embarcadero. Same design as the viaduct in Seattle, I believe. Also earthquake damaged, although not so severely. SF had the right idea about how to replace it. Seattle didn't....
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@gwwar wrote: Is it not still in progress? The renderings look nice. Read full topic
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@daneel wrote: It's been a giant clusterfuck. The boring machine got stuck, in trying to get it out they caused bits of downtown to subside, it's costing a fortune, overrunning by years, the tunnel...
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@TobinL wrote: And from a very good article linked to in BoingBoing a while ago now it does not help that all the surrounding communities are like oh a new business park awesome but apartments/housing...
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@sbrownpearn wrote: As a city-dweller and (reverse) commuter (driving to a suburb for work / residing in downtown) I'm always really bothered by the amount of traffic and the time / money spent to...
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@lolipop_jones wrote: Dioptase1: Also, who makes the money from this scheme? The city for selling the roadway? I can see local government and attorneys getting behind this plan. It's a once in a...
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@lolipop_jones wrote: lots of people who could be participating in the hot economies of San Francisco, London, New York, and other housing infernos I'll pass, bunky. Like Pokey LaFarge, I'm gettin' by...
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@japhroaig wrote: mcavory: Buses go right to your door in America? When the idea, as stated, is to narrow the broader roads that public transit uses, then yes they do. mcavory: it's nothing...
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@japhroaig wrote: BTW, I live in a cheap, charming bungalow in the PNW and telecommute to Menlo park. I used to live on a farm and telecommute to the Czech republic. Read full topic
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@TobinL wrote: I kinda miss being virtual. Way back when, the sysadmins kept getting moved out for the engineers and we got reorged such that we were all over Puget Sound anyway. The company was...
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@Brainspore wrote: albill: So you're saying that in the parts of Barcelona and Paris where I've been where the streets are this wide, they abandon the elderly and infirm? Really? I call bullshit here....
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