Non-IT News Thread
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@scottalanmiller This article is missing an important part of why Seattle has so many parking spaces compared to residents. It is because the vast majority of people who work in the city dont live in the city. There arent that many places to actually live in the city limits of Seattle. Downtown is mostly business not residential. From his parking heatmap, the 'hottest' part is downtown, where there are almost no residential apartment buildings. There have been some built that last 5 years or so, but still, the reason traffic sucks is because people live in suburbs and drive here to work. They dont live in the city.
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@momurda That's a huge part of the problem. Parking spaces, though, push people out of the city. Who wants to live by parking lots? It's both cause AND effect, I think. People moved out and used cars, more parking needed. More parking pushed more people out of the city.
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@scottalanmiller Is this a fail on City Managers & Planners because they did not look forward enough to consider this and maybe implement mass transit of some type to suburbs? Or just couldn't have been foreseen?
I honestly did not read the article. Sorry if it was already mentioned. Just going off of yalls comments.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Is this a fail on City Managers & Planners because they did not look forward enough to consider this and maybe implement mass transit of some type to suburbs? Or just couldn't have been foreseen?
I honestly did not read the article. Sorry if it was already mentioned. Just going off of yalls comments.
Different priorities. City planners still answer to voters. But Europe mostly avoided this problem. But they had trains later, which actually helped them as they learned from the US doing it first.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda That's a huge part of the problem. Parking spaces, though, push people out of the city. Who wants to live by parking lots? It's both cause AND effect, I think. People moved out and used cars, more parking needed. More parking pushed more people out of the city.
Everyone wants that 8,000 sqft cookie-cutter house in the suburb for their family of 3 or 4 so they can drive their Suburban to work in the city.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller This article is missing an important part of why Seattle has so many parking spaces compared to residents. It is because the vast majority of people who work in the city dont live in the city. There arent that many places to actually live in the city limits of Seattle. Downtown is mostly business not residential. From his parking heatmap, the 'hottest' part is downtown, where there are almost no residential apartment buildings. There have been some built that last 5 years or so, but still, the reason traffic sucks is because people live in suburbs and drive here to work. They dont live in the city.
It doesn't help that you really don't have that much usable land near downtown. You have the sound on one side, and a mountain range on the other. Moving onto the peninsula by the ocean means you get lots of.... interesting weather, that nobody in their right mind wants to deal with. So everything is crammed into one narrow stretch of land. Which holds true for much of the West coast of course.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller This article is missing an important part of why Seattle has so many parking spaces compared to residents. It is because the vast majority of people who work in the city dont live in the city. There arent that many places to actually live in the city limits of Seattle. Downtown is mostly business not residential. From his parking heatmap, the 'hottest' part is downtown, where there are almost no residential apartment buildings. There have been some built that last 5 years or so, but still, the reason traffic sucks is because people live in suburbs and drive here to work. They dont live in the city.
It doesn't help that you really don't have that much usable land near downtown. You have the sound on one side, and a mountain range on the other. Moving onto the peninsula by the ocean means you get lots of.... interesting weather, that nobody in their right mind wants to deal with. So everything is crammed into one narrow stretch of land. Which holds true for much of the West coast of course.
That can actually improve things, if people just stop using the damn cars.
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@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda That's a huge part of the problem. Parking spaces, though, push people out of the city. Who wants to live by parking lots? It's both cause AND effect, I think. People moved out and used cars, more parking needed. More parking pushed more people out of the city.
Everyone wants that 8,000 sqft cookie-cutter house in the suburb for their family of 3 or 4 so they can drive their Suburban to work in the city.
That's the real issue.
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Giuliani just said that Trump's collusion with Russians interfering in elections isnt a crime...
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Trump so confused he states that the F35 is literally invisible. Apparently believing it to be actually like the Emperor's New Clothes, and not just an overpriced aircraft.
Chances are this originated from him placing an order and Lockheed telling him that they had already been delivered and when he demanded to see them they just pointed to an empty airport and said "there are three of them right there, you can't see them, they are stealth."
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Us old-timers remember about you, @scottalanmiller, and parking garages.
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Apple is first public company worth $1 trillion - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45050213
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Open Offices Make People Talk Less and Email More...
File this under "duh", of course people talk less when it isn't private and it irritates other people. How did anyone need research to know this? No one honestly thought open offices were to encourage communications.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Open Offices Make People Talk Less and Email More...
File this under "duh", of course people talk less when it isn't private and it irritates other people. How did anyone need research to know this? No one honestly thought open offices were to encourage communications.
Open office is the dumbest thing.
