Doing Something Real About Gentrification And Displacement
Doing Something Real About Gentrification And Displacement
May 22, 2017 By Dan Savage Read More: http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017...d-displacement Quote:
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I couldn't make it through the whole article because the author is such an entitled cry baby it's impossible to take him seriously.
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FYI, the author is dan savage, the sex columnist
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He's actually a smart guy on this stuff, a friend to urbanity in Seattle for many years.
I looked up his job title...Editorial Director a the Stranger, one of Seattle's main weekly papers. Not just the column. |
For medium sized cities LRT and proper BRT is not enough. To move rapidly over long distance an ICTS Skytrain system with stations miles apart should be included.
Larger cities can increase integrated Commuter Rail stations and access to it to do that job. |
We need higher-capacity rail, yes ($70 billion in funding has been voter-approved). But Seattle's version of light rail is higher-capacity than most. Much of the existing starter system and most of the planned additions are grade separated.
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But there should be more express to cover long distances faster like Paris has as an alternative to the subway system to sit through too many stops.
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were going about it completely wrong....build a second CBD, and a third and fourth. connect all the dots instead of trying to flush all the crap down ONE central drain.....we need multiple nodes of business and housing. no more doughnuts. the suburbs should ascend as places of housing and commerce, and become.....cities! but also with multi-use, small footprints in mind. there is no use trying to socially retrofit neighborhoods. let them evolve as the market dictates. but change where the market does business so the wealth and expenses are spread around. the system isnt broken, but the model is.
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As for his point, I am pretty proud to hail from one major city that halted the freeway expansion mid-expansion when it was happening in the 1950s and 1960s and has now torn down much of what managed to get put up. We still have one freeway the manages to make it all the way throught the city: I-80/US101 which comes up the peninsula from the airport and the suburbs beyond and crosses the Bay Bridge to Oakland. But we never got this: 1948 Freeway Plan http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/...n-908x1024.jpg https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/01...reeway-revolt/ and pretty much all we have now is this: http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/pics/kmap-sf-1951.jpg https://www.google.com/search?q=exis...4D57loIuLO91M: |
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