They did a bunch of them near where I used to live. The problem with these (and really all unplanned high density housing) is that while their intent is to create walkable communities (a great idea in itself), they ignore the reality that most people are going to commute to a job, and they create the nastiest traffic bottlenecks ever. They're not bad when they're located next to a major highway with preplanned egress/ingress, but many of these halfwit developers will plop them with an entrance exit on an already busy 4 lane road and wonder why everything is all wacko.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If traffic gets bad enough people will make different decisions.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only if the infrastructure is there tbh. Every time I get on my bike I have to make peace that I might just die that day because I can't hardly get out of my apartment before a car tries to hit me. And we even have bike lanes all over here they just aren't set up well. Tons of people don't want to do that even if the alternative is to sit in traffic for longer than it takes me to bike somewhere

[–] regul@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

the impetus to improve the infrastructure will be stronger if conditions are worse

don't chicken-and-egg yourself out of densification

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