The Urbanist Cult

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Anonymous wrote:Most Americans live in cities so that 28 minute commute is a dream for most.

A commute is easier however when you aren’t the one driving (you’re sitting on a bus or a subway), no?

Or riding a bike! Bicycle commuters are the most satisfied with their commute.

Bike commuting in the US lasts until either biker has an accident or they age out.

How is that different for car commuters?

[Anonymous]

Building a duplex seems like such a partial solution to me. Only one more family per lot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most Americans live in cities so that 28 minute commute is a dream for most.

A commute is easier however when you aren’t the one driving (you’re sitting on a bus or a subway), no?

Or riding a bike! Bicycle commuters are the most satisfied with their commute.

Bike commuting in the US lasts until either biker has an accident or they age out.

How is that different for car commuters?

When a car commuter has an accident it’s called a fender bender. When the same happens to a biker it’s a trip to the ER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most Americans live in cities so that 28 minute commute is a dream for most.

A commute is easier however when you aren’t the one driving (you’re sitting on a bus or a subway), no?

Or riding a bike! Bicycle commuters are the most satisfied with their commute.

Bike commuting in the US lasts until either biker has an accident or they age out.

How is that different for car commuters?

When a car commuter has an accident it’s called a fender bender. When the same happens to a biker it’s a trip to the ER.

About 23,400 motor vehicle occupants died on the roads in the US in 2020. Also, about 6,200 pedestrians, 5,000 motorcyclists, and 850 bicyclists.

Now, if you're making the point that cars are dangerous, then yes, I'll agree. Cars (or, more accurately, car drivers) is what killed those pedestrians and bicyclists. We need streets that are safer for people who aren't in cars. It's one of the things the Urbanist Cult TM advocates for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Building a duplex seems like such a partial solution to me. Only one more family per lot?

I mean, I'm fine with triplexes and fourplexes, but even duplexes is too much for the YOU'RE DESTROYING THE SUBURBS!!!! people.

[Anonymous]

Duplexes in the green leafy areas of DC are unwanted and unneeded by current residents. They are the fantasy of 30-somethings who think that they will suddenly create a housing g market where they can send their kids to Murch or Janney. There is no substitute for getting a higher paid job. Duplexes are not going to lower prices, they will drive them up as developers start competing for the low end of the market - which in Ward 3 are houses in the $800k to $1.2 million range.

[Anonymous]

Boy, this thread sure is having the opposite effect of what the OP intended. I haven’t seen a single post on n support of her that isn’t completely deranged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duplexes in the green leafy areas of DC are unwanted and unneeded by current residents. They are the fantasy of 30-somethings who think that they will suddenly create a housing g market where they can send their kids to Murch or Janney. There is no substitute for getting a higher paid job. Duplexes are not going to lower prices, they will drive them up as developers start competing for the low end of the market - which in Ward 3 are houses in the $800k to $1.2 million range.

Of course. Sigh.

This is nuts. In Denmark and Canada the curriculum across schools is completely the same and it hardly matters which school your kid goes to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think SFHs are addictive. Once you have one you want to keep that style of housing.

Especially when zoning makes it so that is the only thing that can be built.

There's lots of demand for SPHs in DC. Growing demand for more glass flats above another Sweetgreen's or a Five Guys? not so much.

[Anonymous]

As the the Smart Growth cult, it reminds me of a recent article about Trump cultists. Many of them are lonely and want to belong to something. Just as Trump and his operatives managed to hook and manipulate the Trump cultists, develop lobbyists (some former Trump operatives themselves) speak to lonely Density Bros who blog from mom's basement about Smart Growth.

[Anonymous]

Urbanists and Progressives do more harm to the under served under the guise of fairness than white supremacists could ever dream. They treat those "experiencing homelessness" like pets. Give them a tent and allow them to live in the park until the mayor tries to clean it up and then they'll scream about fairness. Please feel free to invite them into your home and if you can't do that develop a real solution to the problem. Don't play policy games with the lives of human beings.

I will say they're excellent at painting lines on roads though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most Americans live in cities so that 28 minute commute is a dream for most.

That commute is the average commute time, so it's not a dream for "most" -- it's the average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think SFHs are addictive. Once you have one you want to keep that style of housing.

I have one and am already looking forward to not having one anymore once our kids are out of the house (in, like, 15 years).

[Anonymous]

I do t understand why the people pushing for upzoning move into condos. Plenty of condos available and hundreds more coming online every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think SFHs are addictive. Once you have one you want to keep that style of housing.

Especially when zoning makes it so that is the only thing that can be built.

There's lots of demand for SPHs in DC. Growing demand for more glass flats above another Sweetgreen's or a Five Guys? not so much.

All the more reason to allow attached single family homes to be built in DC in places where the zoning does not currently allow it.