Bring in whoever builds the Tokyo subway and let them use their methods, changing laws as necessary. Kidnap zoning board's children if you have to (make them sleep in bunk beds stacked four high). Whatever it takes to get results.
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Take the historic character of San Francisco's western half and drown it in the sea. Keep the restaurants, replace everything else between Parnassus and the ocean with the densest housing possible. Make it law that Silicon Valley commuters must use a dedicated Elon Musk tunnel
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That would be my slogan. Elect me, and I will make the streets flow with blood if necessary, but two grand will get you a nice two bedroom apartment 25 minutes from the city center by Japan-installed rail
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Don't even ask what happened to the residents of Palo Alto. Don't. Just know that it's been renamed Omelas, housing is plentiful and it is now seven minutes from Embarcadero by bullet train.
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Stanford University has been moved into a single high-rise with beautiful views of the densely settled former campus. Faculty who so desire can have their windows replaced with a virtual reality re-creation of the former campus (offer not available to adjuncts in windowless core)
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Bay Bridge? Residents get five free crossings a year, and after that it's $40 a pop. The proceeds are used to pay public bathroom attendants. The Golden Gate is reserved for bike and pedestrian traffic only, since the urban core of New Sausalito is adequately served by BART North
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When came here from NYC, the thing that astonished me most was the atrocious and quite limited transit system. Compared to NYC. Let that sink in.
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Even when they don’t know how.
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A good way to reduce the outsized impact of NIMBYs is how NZ does it: instead of holding hearings that NIMBYs dominate, all relevant households just get mailed return-addressed questionnaires with details and we check off r preferences, bike paths, chargers..
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