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The difference between conjecture and reality. Musk supposes he can put through 3360 pax/hour. Today we already have rail lines that routinely discharge 100000 pax/hour. We don't need your napkin math because we already know what a rail line can do.

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In retrospect, even the pretext was bunk. It turns out that turfing old people out of their giant, valuable houses is a benefit rather than a problem. Today, thanks to Prop 13, Boomers are massively over-housed.

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"Reston is a Car-Dependent city" -- https://www.walkscore.com/VA/Reston

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You obviously have no idea what the boundaries of Brisbane are.

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You seem to be defining "Brisbane proper" as the area between San Francisco Ave. and Firth Park. But Brisbane is much more extensive. The majority of its land area is taken up by empty land, single-story material handling facilities, and ludicrous sprawl at "The Ridge".

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https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6888189,-122.4091851,410a,35...

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This one is. It almost seems designed to trick a machine learning classifier into classifying it as a warehouse or something.

Point it the existing built environment of Brisbane, CA is not worth preserving. Its car-dependent nature is a menace to the region.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6916572,-122.4087356,3a,90y,...

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With respect to your and our values, the people of the state have mandated that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced below 1990 levels by year 2020, and state law requires every city to adopt a climate action plan to that effect. Brisbane's adopted plan recognizes that transportation is the majority of the city's greenhouse gas emissions, and acknowledges that "Lack of affordability in urban core housing causes people to live far away from where they work", but does not propose fixing this problem. The only solution their climate action plan proposes is to install public electric car chargers!

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I was just objecting to the idea that a small town was inappropriate in this context. With a suitable urban form there's no reason why you couldn't take the entire population of Brisbane and put them all on 640 acres, with 80% open space.

But Brisbane, California is not a "small town" it's a disgusting example of exurban sprawl.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brisbane,+CA/@37.679201,-1...

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It's on ice. Nobody is building anything in Coyote Valley. But it's a wonderful plan.

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There's nothing wrong with small villages 7 miles from a major city or even a capital city, if the principal city is built properly. If you walk 7 miles from the center of Zurich, Switzerland you'll probably find yourself in the middle of a vineyard or pasture.

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Those numbers don't make a lot of sense. Wouldn't 4400 homes generate something in the vicinity of 50 million dollars in annual property taxes?

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This has been going around, but even this plan to build 4400 dwellings is still total nonsense, because the plan also includes office space for 15000 people. 15000 jobs requires much more than 4400 dwellings, so this plan will just make things worse.

I recommend comparing and contrasting with this plan for Coyote Valley, to see what real urbanism looks like. http://www.greenbelt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Coyote-V...

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Most Americans repeat "socialism is bad" while driving down their toll-free interstate highways.

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Essentially, poor white Americans oppose any kind of social service that might benefit black Americans. Virtually every problem that America faces is complicated by this one simple fact, which is an echo of the fact that half the country literally went to war over their preference to enslave black people. Despite this glaring and obvious reality, most commentators are afraid to mention it.

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Seattle is at a higher latitude.

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In the internal Google salary survey, controlling for level and tenure, salaries in Pittsburgh are within 10% of salaries in Mountain View. Moving to Pittsburgh is similar to getting an enormous raise. However "controlling for level" masks the fact that Pittsburgh is Siberia, far from the palace court where it is harder to be promoted to a high level.

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Most people don't realize that because it's not true. The air quality of the combined statistical area of San Francisco is worse than that of the CSA containing Pittsburgh, but pollution in the expansive San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose CSA is centered elsewhere, whereas Pittsburgh is the pollution epicenter of its CSA. This is due chiefly to its geography, not some kind of moral failing. San Francisco has very favorable geography for air quality.

As for your linked article, that seems irrelevant. Nobody thinks Hanford, CA is an upcoming tech hub.

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There are still major steel works in the area, some of which are operating with grandfathered emissions limits. Also Pittsburgh receives the wind-blown emissions of practically every coal-fired power plant in the nation.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_d...

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