I lived in the outer sunset. Dig a BART/MUNI tunnel due west and build multistory housing everywhere. Golden Gate Park should look like Central Park, lined with tall buildings. This is not difficult, but a thousand locals can't be allowed to veto 100,000 potential residentshttps://twitter.com/TribTowerViews/status/1202849489909735424 …
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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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The thing with the vast majority of Tokyo's railways is that most of them are private companies. The only government run subway is Toei Subway. JR East, Tokyo Metro, and the many, many others are all privately owned.
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It's apparently more complicated then that. Something like the trains are really only legally privatized since the government still has a controlling stake, so it's really about managing the money differently but it's still payed by taxes. Also they rent real-estate to shops.
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