Thank the gods we live in such a car-saturated nation, how horrible it would be if this space was used to house people
Thank the gods we live in such a car-saturated nation, how horrible it would be if this space was used to house people
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Imagine living somewhere designed for people
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You know what also houses 0 people, Central Park. And I mean permanent housing.
You can make any point if you cherry pick data hard enough.
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To be fair, the population is probably a little more than 0. I'm sure there's some homeless folks living under it.
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Hey I lived in Siena! Incredibly beautiful and charming city
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I mean, who'd want to live in the center of that thing? smh
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Siena, Italy? yeah fair enough
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Zero? Really? In Houston? Surely there are at least a few sheltered under that.
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yes but we need cars i don't understand how we're supposed to live without the infrastructure
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I apologize if you're being sarcastic, but this is the point. We need cars because we designed our cities around cars.
If we designed around foot traffic and rail, we wouldn't need (as many) cars and could do with less expensive car-centric infrastructure. Not just interstate exchanges, but also the massive parking lots and garages that are required, gas stations and car repair/oil change places on every corner, etc.
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I would rather die than live in an apartment.
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The better designed and better laid out cities are, the more affordable and less intruded-upon rural areas are. It's win-win.
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An apartment in the suburbs of Nowhere, Texas? Agreed. An apartment in the middle of a beautiful, historic downtown city center that has been developing for hundreds of years? I could give the car up.
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It's not lack of space in Texas that causes that
In Houston, though?
A lot of land that is otherwise economically valuable is necessary to use to enable the massive flow of personal automobile traffic between and through areas.
The land in Houston is economically valuable in part because of the developed transportation system. In a giant city like Houston with only single lane each way streets would grind the city to a halt immediately.