This means Denver, a metro area of 3M people, is building a paltry 3680 homes per year. This is for a metro that grows 1-3%/yr. The article says there's a shortage of over *100K* homes in CO. Definitely remove parking minimums but this state is *cooked*.
Compare that to 1h+ train times to NY's low-density suburbs where you still need to switch to car on arrival. Meanwhile homes with good transit options to central NYC (where the *jobs* are, duh?!) command a premium unaffordable to most.
Tokyo is similar to NYC in that it's a core surrounded by suburbs. The difference is that Tokyo's suburbs are designed around *trains* instead of *cars*. You can get anywhere in the Tokyo metro by train in 30-45m.
I'm currently reading this book. The author mentioned this factoid on a podcast interview: in 1960 the Tokyo and NYC metro areas had roughly the same population (17M/14M). Today Tokyo has 37M (+118%) while NYC has 19M (+36%). He attributes this largely to differences in city design/planning.
95 m^2 is ~1000sqft. We're a family of 4 in a 1200sqft apt that was designed by a complete nitwit. So much unusable and awkwardly laid out space. I'm 25mins by foot/train to lower Manhattan. There's plenty of space to live at this scale within the 52 min healthy radius if we built+designed better.
Me noticing there's on-street parking lining both sides of every goddamn street on my walk to the train station. Literally every single street without exception. Some of them get a door-zone bike lane thrown in as a kind of insulting consolation.
Allowing right on red enables drivers to momentarily feel like their trip is smoother while remaining oblivious to the fact that their entire mode of transit is cursed.
Curious how often these "signal problems" seem to happen just at the start of a peak window. Does PA get an alert overnight for these and then wait for the morning shift to respond? #njisbroken@govmurphy.bsky.social
I drove to work *once* on the first day of an internship. After that single blood-boiling experience I said "fuck this shit" and took the subway+bus instead. It took around an hour each way and I got so much reading done. This was over twenty years ago and I haven't driven to work since.
What, you can't plan your life around vibes and broken promises from @govmurphy.bsky.social ? 🙃
My conundrum: weekend HBLR service is so bad I'm considering getting a bike to take my kid around. But JC bike routes are so fragmented and unsafe I'm afraid to ride a bike. Thinking of moving to NYC.
This community is completely cooked. I'm trying to imagine a "fix" for this that would maintain the status quo. I'm picturing a row of highway toll booths with electronic signage directing kids and parents. It would cost tens of millions in capex/opex. Or they could just get a dozen school buses.
Heads-up young adults! When you have kids you'll spend zero hours per week with your friends. And you'll have to pay someone to take your kid outside so you can have sex with your partner.
Jesus H Christ. The amount of infrastructure required to simply keep these non-CDL 7000 pound toys in the lane is totally disproportionate to their value and should not be borne by the public. These trucks need to be banned.
The mythical hard-working blue-collar New Yorker who *drives to work* makes an appearance again! We lived in UWS for 7 yrs and the thought never even occurred to us to get a car. Know what an easy affordability solution is? Sell your car and take the subway!
