If you go out the union square exit it does

It’s only 6 average American driving years, but your point still stands. It’s a lot of fuel for a very small number of people.

Transit priority lanes, and improved on time performance of the muni subway.

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We absolutely need to make it easier to build new high density housing. In my neighborhood it took over 7 years to get a 100% affordable housing building approved because of neighborhood opposition. Fortunately state laws are changing and as of this election BoS has changed significantly

Most of the city was downzoned to SFH with setbacks and everything in the 70s. The building I live in is non compliant and could not be built today. It’s so expensive here because we basically stopped building new stock outside of a few neighborhoods.

Yeah, nationally things are a mess, but when it comes to zoning and how we design our streets, has very little power. It’s definitely disheartening for many other things, but focusing on local issues can produce a lot more real change for the better.

Agreed. YIMBY movement is slowly having success pushing back at a grass roots level, with bipartisan support in some places. But the biggest push back comes at a local level from older people who love their cars and SFH, and don’t want density or improved transit.

At the local level voting makes a huge difference, where I live voting has resulted in laws around zoning changing, the entire city being upzoned, and the permitting process streamlined. It’s also resulted in transit getting much better. It’s slow but incrementally improving.

The auto industry absolutely needs to be reigned in, but if the majority of people actually voted to make things better, they'd start to change. YIMBY movement is starting to have some success on these fronts, but there is a lot of resistance from people, not just corp lobbying.