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pas | karma 7438 | avg karma 1.12 · 2022-05-29 06:48:35

Austin is a highly productive dense city, not a low density suburb.

JeremyNT | karma 5020 | avg karma 3.4 · 2022-05-29 07:08:16

Austin may be productive but dense it is not! The city itself is only 1/4 as dense as say Chicago, nevermind if you include the suburbs...

Towns like Austin are precisely at issue. They grow by low density sprawl and large roads.

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renewiltord | karma 12072 | avg karma 1.39 · 2022-05-29 10:07:22

There's no way that characterizes Austin. It's a sprawly city. Anyone who even tries to go car free there will be disappointed.

pas | karma 7438 | avg karma 1.12 · 2022-05-30 06:26:31

Of course it's a typical growing infestation of mostly single-family-homes, but at least it has some urban core as opposed to the suburbs around it. And when Austin can't grow anymore those suburb-only municipalities will, and the prediction is that their finances will continue to worsen as upkeep costs start to dominate.

forum_ghost | karma 91 | avg karma 0.35 · 2022-05-30 14:59:33

>at least it has some urban core

why do they need to exist?

they are even harder to maintain than suburbs, have you not noticed the meter thick layer of dirt in the NYC subway?

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pas | karma 7438 | avg karma 1.12 · 2022-05-30 16:22:53

that's where the sausage is made

NYC public transportation has all the usual problems, but it moves a lot of people who otherwise would not be able to move. (this is basically why it's so "full of crazy people, but it's not a cause it's an effect of the efficiency of NYC)

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