The only thing i can see on the right bad is that many people dont like beeing cramped in with many other people. + want to have a garden Balcony can be a “garden” but not as good. I have nothing against the right, but keep in mind not everyone is the same.
Buildings like the one on the right near me have something like community gardens, but exclusive to the residents.
I don’t know exactly how it works, but it seems residents who want a garden have one, and those who don’t aren’t forced to maintain exactly X cm high grass.
Right - unless you’re getting a custom home, builders do jack shit about noise control - at best, you’ll have some fiberglass batting inside an interior wall, but even that is usually not done. Take the same kind of standard cost-cutting and apply it to an apartment complex, and congratulations, you just created the projects. My point being is that if residential density is a desired social policy, then there need to be standards put in place that focus on quality of life, not just safety/environmental standards. But builders and developers have regulatory capture (in the US), and things like “quality of life” are marketing premiums rather than something everyone should enjoy.
Condos and Housing coops go a long way I think to reduce some of the pain points most people have had with apartment living. The issue now is that most people are comparing owning a home where you have a lot of control over your circumstances and price stability, vs having a landlord that is doing the minimum and raising rents every chance they can. If apartments were built for people, and not landlords would they still have cramped hallways and balconies, would they have poor insulation and sound proofing, would they have old noisy AC units, etc, etc. The thing is, even in cases where people do choose to not have an amenity, people still had the choice.
In my country, there’s no distinction between apartments and condos or whatever you have in the US. An apartment could be owned by anyone and that person can choose to live in it or rent it out. Institutional ownership of entire apartment buildings DOES happen (legally nothing is stopping you from doing it), but it’s not super common. Most companies prefer to get their quick buck out of building the place and then selling the apartments. And bailing on you before the warranty is over lol
I have found that the self driving cars actually do yield to me in the crosswalk, which is nice. Contrast to human drivers who will try to run me over because I need to “get out of the street” while crossing . Parked vehicles block emergency vehicles countless times daily… but you don’t hear about that shit do you? Also SFFD park their emergency vehicles on the tram tracks when they don’t need to. Delaying thousands of commuters, all while letting people in cars go past the accident scene unhindered. SF is at war with its transit riders. SF is corrupt. It takes 7 fucking years to remove one parking spot. There’s so much more to this shit saga.
My favorite thing for these parking lot issues is just folding the passenger mirror in. Non destructive, annoying, and the owner almost never notices until they have at least gotten in the vehicle, if not already moving, and have to stop, get out, fix the mirror, and start the whole “go” processes over.
Oh, threatening other human beings now are we? In that case have fun when you start your car… maybe don’t park in easily accessible public places, it may be bad for your health. Just a safety tip, I’m not gonna do jack or shit, but other people aren’t in the military and some of those ain’t got nothing to lose.
Valid questions and a real issue for some. I’m originally from Alaska thst had horrendous public transit. I’d have loved to use it, but in some places it’s sadly just not practical yet.
Sounds like an opportunity for locals to make some noise! Those businesses need to present data probably but it seems like an easy win to me. Maybe do something else for the traffic challenge.
I think most people have no idea how fast ebikes are in a city environment. Yeah my bike is capped at 30km/h but I make a lot of that time up by never being stuck in traffic. Short trips are always faster than driving and medium trips are usually comparable.
People also don’t seem to understand how bikes (and good transit) are completely unaffected by rush hour, accidents, or construction. My buddy (who is pretty sympathetic to urbanism) seemed confused when I said my trips always take the same amount of time, the concept seemed outlandish to him.
@Moneo@Eheran I live in a city that constantly shows up in the top 5 for worst traffic in the world. BUT, we also have a sizeable bike path network. I almost exclusively move on my bike (I don't have a car, but sometimes I take a taxi or a bus). The other day I told someone I haven't been stuck in traffic in years, and they couldn't understand how (the answer is easy, you don't get stuck in traffic in a bike path. Even when there's a lot of people, you keep moving along).
Matt Taibbi piece that ops video probably pulled from. For those to whom this is news, don’t pay yourself on the back, municipalities and states all over are doing this and have been for a while: rollingstone.com/…/exclusive-excerpt-america-on-s…
If you like the piece, Taibbi was one of the few who dug into and wrote about the great bailouts and all the scamming of American public at behest of lobbyists, the powerful and the “elected”. He’s got lots of other good work.
Nothing mentioned in the sources about this being a source. Not cited. I don’t think this video was pulled from that. Sorry, nothing against the piece (never read it), but this is definitely Climate Town’s bread and butter. It’s just what they do.
The author of the article I linked literally won a national magazine award as an investigative journalist in 2008 for several pieces he wrote, that includes what happened to chicago’s streets, which he then went on to publish in a book Griftopia and several others. Video is an important format but your video has youtube folks that care about a subject talking about well documented issues, that people like Matt Taibbi helped unearth. As long as people learn about it that’s fine, but just becuase a youtube channel who brings on an expert “matt from matt’s youtube channel” doesn’t mean it’s the same quality.
I’m not sure what you’re on about. Just because the guy won awards you think the video must have used his stuff as a source, even though the videos sources don’t list it? www.climatetownproductions.com/chicago-meters
I’m sorry, this is probably my neurodivergence speaking, but that’s not evidence that Climate Town pulled from that book.
Listen, it’s not even relevant, because it’s not even the intent of your original comment. That could just be like, “Hey guys, if you think that’s crazy, you should check out this book that goes into this happening not only in Chicago but across the entire United States.” But you’re insistence that that book IS the source is just completely throwing me. Why? I guess I don’t understand why the need to exaggerate the connection between the two. They both cover the same topic, that was all the in you needed to plug that book/article.
And your reply comment is an appeal to originality and an appeal to quality. It’s fallacious and irrelevant to my point. And kind of disappointing that you’re disparaging good content to make your thing look better.
Yeah, I was thinking this was a mispost and the intended community was supposed to be “fuckbikes” since this ahole is blocking a to go order window that patrons will use.
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