Jails are also car free.
Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
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#242Looks like an open air shopping mall. I wonder if there is any public space or if all the walkways are privately owned, allowing the owners to outlaw any persons or ideologies they dislike?
The whole project is rentals.
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#243Oh look, a bunch of CGI images of selfie-taking, twenty-something, hipsters. Jump off a bridge while you still can.
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#244I tend to think that these things have to come up more organically. I get Soviet cityblock vibes from this. Maybe it’s unfair of me. I guess If it fails the eventual occupants can translate cul de sac into English to refer to what the place has become.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's an entirely self inflicted problem. Just run the busses every 5 or 10 minutes, and have twice as many busses.
In Seattle, a typical local bus trip costs the transit company around $10, while the ticket costs around $3. Running twice as many buses would result in cost of something like $18-20 per ride, which would make it require even more subsidies than it already receives.
Does that assume that no more people will use the frequent (convenient) bus service than were using the infrequent (much less convenient) service?
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#246Founder here. Great to see the excitement people have for Culdesac and for Culdesac Tempe. Our vision is to build the first car-free city in the US, starting with the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US. Join our waitlist at culdesac.com. We open next year! If you want to visit in the meantime, drop me a note. Hiring-wise, we're hiring in Tempe or remote. Our top hiring prio is to lead product de…
Ooh,"excitement"! Like every other one of these Truman Show ideas, it will fail miserably.
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#247Sort of neat I guess. Seems like a community type thing, similar to Facebook campus. But also somewhat harrowing that this could catch on and you have entire neighborhoods that are self contained and corporate owned. Maybe living on a lord's land was something that just stopped for a little while.
Some huge percentage of Americans already live under an HoA or condo association. They've all but replaced municipal governments in many places.
You still own your property when there’s an HOA. I wonder why they didn’t do that here.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
That absolutely is how the real world works. I'm not well-off myself, I keep track of prices, and this recently happened in my own town.
No, you either didn’t read what I wrote or you haven’t been living on a budget. Poor people don’t waste more money on gas than they save by going to Walmart. They go to Walmart because it’s significantly cheaper to do weekly shopping there than even other big retail grocery outlets, let lone little ones. My parents absolutely fucking hate going to Walmart but they go there weekly because it’s $50/week difference just…
You’re both not wrong. I’ve seen both. I’ve lived both. One of my earliest memories was being chastised by my family for spending a tiny fraction more than the lowest price on something; same brand, twice the volume, didn’t have a shelf life, wasn’t over budget. I got in trouble as a poor kid in a poor family for listening to advice my family had given me to shop smart.
I also got the same in reverse for being less thrifty and more considerate.
Big shrug emoji. I know poverty so much it scares and traumatized me. I appreciate that not everyone does, but I also don’t think it should be represented as something uniquely rational.
Poverty is duress. People make all kinds of good decisions because they have survival instincts, and all kinds of bad decisions because they have a bunch of incentives. They often do both and everything in between in a single outing because, yep, gas is expensive. And they’re tired. And the world is hard and expensive.
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#249Founder here. Great to see the excitement people have for Culdesac and for Culdesac Tempe. Our vision is to build the first car-free city in the US, starting with the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US. Join our waitlist at culdesac.com. We open next year! If you want to visit in the meantime, drop me a note. Hiring-wise, we're hiring in Tempe or remote. Our top hiring prio is to lead product de…
Welcome to HN. Couple of thoughts; first, it’s kinda weird for you to introduce yourself as a ‘founder’ - I’ve been around developers and real estate all my life, and I’ve never heard anyone use that term to describe what they do. Makes me wonder if you see this as more of a housing subscription service than a community? Which leads to my second thought - what’s the thought process behind this being a rental-only thi…
@djrogers -- Ryan was also on the founding team of OpenDoor. I can promise you Steve Ross, Michael Fuchs, Steven Roth, and Jerry Speyer all describe themselves as founders. The greatest leaders in real estate do, because they have innovated to build something people want. And Culdesac is very much a startup.
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#250This ditch full of sims, without a car in it is yours. There are meny like it, but this one is yours. Even though it is in the middle of a perhaps overbuilt desert where it really ought to not be as ridiculous to have a car as it is say in the urban east coast, where you just need a car to escape the retail trap that has replaced sensible urbanity, this ditch is yours. Now crawl in and die already, god damn it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmrOQ4BizCE