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'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out. (www.businessinsider.com)
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'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's traffic in NYC and Chicago. As long as there are roads people will drive. There will always be traffic. Public transit only affects how bad the traffic will be and limit growth of the city.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are so close to understanding ... as long as there are roads ... there will be traffic ...

The solution isn't build more roads and enable car culture more, the solution is to stop catering to cars and build less roads. Instead build more public transit. Literally stop catering to cars, make cars less viable as a transportation method by limiting how much space is available to them. Cities can work just fine without cars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Cities can work fine without cars if they have viable alternatives

I know you mentioned this but it bears repeating, because so many of the "fuck cars" people don't bother to prioritize investing in alternatives, just making driving more miserable.

If you make car commutes twice as long but offer trains, you get more people on trains.

If you make car commutes twice as long but don't offer any alternatives, you just have the same people sitting in cars for twice as long.