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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
No. That's the huge gripe. If they did, the prices would be much higher and moving to the edge of the city wouldn't be so attractive. Right now the only negative is travel time. With our road happy city council, traffic really isn't that bad for a city of our footprint, so people will continue flooding to the edges. You hit a point however where there isn't enough tax revenue to support all of this infrastructure to low density areas, as the US is having happen now. http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=2131042&page=1 |
I don't think that's completely true.
The developers are responsible for building the infrastructure at first, but they generally only put in the bare minimum (ahem: 52 ST at 130 AVE) and then leave it to the city to maintain the damn thing or properly support it for the population that uses it.