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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm very in favor of making it legal for ppl to build whatever housing they want, but I am a little surprised I haven't heard NIMBYs talk that much about the increased traffic that would come from increased density. This seems like a decently strong argument to me.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
...based on my hundreds of hours playing cities skylines, yeah. i design a very careful transportation system, but then you allow denser zoning and suddenly nobody can move anywhere and u have to tear down entire neighborhoods to build new freeways
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Finrod Felagund 🗽
@s_edain
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@Aella_Girl
Has it come to your mind that there other modes of transportation that can efficiently and quickly transport large crowds through dense urban areas? Like ... rail? Subway? Check out Vienna. Subway for the main routes. Trams to complement them. Or bigger? Tokyo.
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Steve-O MFG
@Steve_OMFG
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@Aella_Girl
As you can see by current big cities public transport is key to efficient movement of people. Gas/ethanol/corn subsidies select for individual cars and development schemes as opposed to investment in mass transport. Honestly tear down some highways and put in high speed rail.👍🏼
Justin McAleer
@JustinMcAleer
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@Aella_Girl
my town is a weird case. we are low density, adjacent to major commercial/industrial employment areas. the vast majority of our traffic problem is commuters going *through* town. I support increased density here hoping to reduce that through-traffic (if they just live here)
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Jake Moffatt
@jakeonrails
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@Aella_Girl
In dense neighborhoods with a mix of commercial and residential, you can literally walk everywhere you need to go. Paris is an excellent example of this - walk to school, walk to the grocery, to the barber/salon, the bars, restaurants, etc. Need to go further, hop on the metro.
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