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Guess you aren't a people person after all.
by echlebek 4y ago
Guess you aren't a people person after all.
- imapeopleperson 4y agoHow so? Ruining a nice town hurts more people than it helps
- AnonMessiah 4y agoHow does more housing ruin a town?
- spfzero 4y agoIt's more the density that people object to, not more people, or more housing. It's when there's an area in the denominator. More density means more cars, more air pollution, more traffic, more noise. More accidents, more time searching for parking and standing in lines. It may not add up to ruin, but it's objectively worse.
- washbrain 4y agoIt... Doesn't have to mean any of those things? Trains and bikes (and ebikes) and scooters and sidewalks and buses and trolleys and streetcars exist. You don't have to design around the car...
- spfzero 4y agoProbably best to try the trolley and scooter thing in a new town where everyone who moved there knew what they were getting.
- washbrain 4y agoThat's typically how it's done, yeah. Intentional communities will often market themselves specifically as walkable or transit adjacent. But there's no reason not to take the things that work well in them and bring them elsewhere. Traffic separated bike lanes and Dutch style intersections are common sense improvements that we can build that improve access without requiring a car.
- washbrain 4y agoPeopleperson is trying to dodge around saying they don't want to live near people who are lower income. Often this is a way of saying, "I don't want people with different ethnic, racial, or cultural backgrounds near me." It's pretty transparent discrimination, tbh.
- jjulius 4y agoI tried to respond to them constructively elsewhere, but this is the correct take so I'm just gonna agree with it.
- imapeopleperson 4y ago
- imapeopleperson 4y ago