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   Dan Lyke (danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 01:04:43 JST Dan Lyke

   • realamy
   • Wim Luyckx ?

   @wimluyckx @realamy even more nuanced than that, it means that we're creating policies that sprawl market rate homes in sprawling isolated clusters.

   And, yeah, parking minimums that create acres of unwalkable asphalt around us are a part of that.

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     realamy (realamy@home.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 01:04:41 JST realamy

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     @danlyke @wimluyckx

     I hate that we build roads with no sidewalks, as the norm

     And people who have sidewalks in disrepair won’t pay to have them repaired or allow them to be widened for accessibility because it might take a foot of their property, and they don’t want “riff raft” walkers

     I used to think the towns paid for sidewalks; No, the homeowners pay at least 1/2 of it and the ones who can afford it, don’t pay, because they want to deter pedestrians, and then others can’t afford it.

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     Dan Lyke (danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 01:04:49 JST Dan Lyke

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     @realamy and we massively subsidize the roads and cars (with dollars, yes, but also with lives and health), and yet when we try to solve traffic by putting funds into buses and walkability and bikability, people scream about "subsidies" and socialism and crap.

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     realamy (realamy@home.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 01:04:50 JST realamy

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     @danlyke @wimluyckx

     Even those high end clustered neighborhoods you mentioned build private roads with no sidewalks because they are fine with cars going by but not people?!?! I don’t get it, but they could make policies that would put an end to a lot of nonsense and make life better

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     Dan Lyke (danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 01:05:57 JST Dan Lyke

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     @realamy but also, the thing that started this thread was that folks in my region are pro more highway lanes, and anti new housing.

     I live in a very nice walkable neighborhood. I often stop at the grocery store while walking home from work. The two bedroom house across the street just sold for a million bucks, and any attempt to build density is met with huge public outcry.

     We'd much rather import our laborers and retail staff from elsewhere than let housing get built.

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