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Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Sat Aug 22 20:29:40 2015, in response to Re: Cuomo Reluctant To Dig Deep For New Hudson Rail Tunnel, posted by Andrew Saucci on Sat Aug 22 18:46:35 2015. Some are, some are not. There has been a rise of single, childless people, as well as DINKs in decent decades, but a lot of people are still settling down and having children. There is a general trend toward urbanization, but there are a LOT of people who don't want to live in the city and love their cars.The biggest thing about generational changes is a greater diversity in how people live their lives and what they do. The generational changes are driving virtually all of the housing starts in the northeastern US to be MDUs, but that doesn't mean that no one is buying the existing housing stock in the 'burbs and fixing them up/ re-doing them, etc. There are other generational changes that will drive big changes in the usage of our crumbling infrastructure, namely experiential spending, spending a lot more money on travel and events, and a lot less buying shit at stores. There are a lot of people from the 'burbs who want to live and work in NYC, and a lot of them are doing that, but a certain percentage of them are going to move out of the city. These changes in general mean that the larger metro areas are going to keep growing, and the small ones are going to be in even worse shape than they were before. NYC should be planning for more and better transportation, including generational changes, but unfortunately, our infrastructure is so screwed up from a federal level all the way down, NYC is just falling farther behind the needs, even as NYC is basically the only place other than Denver actually involved in major capital projects for transit. |
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