You're coming at it from the wrong angle. The reason it's worth more is not because the owners are paying more in taxes, but rather, the costs to maintain the neighborhood are less, allowing the money to be used for other improvements.
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Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes both go over the math more in other articles/videos, but I'll try to provide a decent summary.
Basically, the cost to maintain the roads and infrastructure in a city are paid for by everyone in the area, and because cities are usually smaller and mixed-use, you have several homes and businesses chipping in to pay the same mile of asphalt and water/sewer.
When you get to the suburbs, even though they pay more in taxes because they're larger and newer, they're also more spread out, often with a large highway out to them. They require this dedicated infrastructure line, and still require fire/police/garbage services, which requires more staffing, more buildings, and more trucks.
Imagine you're playing two games of Cities Skylines.
In the first game, you have small, 2-lane roads, your houses and apartment buildings are small, one-four block sizes, you have a corner store every other street, and because everything is within 5 blocks, people walk to their destination. You really only need one fire station, one police station, and a dump.
In the second game, you have a highway to a residential-only area. All your residences are 6 blocks big and in cul-de-sacs. You'd likely have to have one police/fire stations on one side of the suburb and one on the other in order to get full coverage. They'd require their own garbage dump in order to get the best service, and you'd have to run sewer/water lines out to them.
Which of these cities do you think would do better financially?
If you'd like more supplementary reading/watching here are the other videos that go into this more in-depth:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syP8g8HBcy4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5UCwMTjFk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDRZjgiraY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
That last video is actually part of a whole playlist, which starts here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa
You haven't met some of my coworkers
Well yeah, you gotta school them 😜
I think the major issue is that most people see bike lanes as removing their choice to drive, rather than adding alternatives to make driving easier. These people pushing for change need to look at the MAYA ~~principal~~ principle, meaning they use the Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable vocabulary to ease in the transition.
Anyone who wants to platform for biking and making better urbanism needs to instead focus their campaign on being fiscally responsible and tackling traffic concerns. If pressed, they can say that there are lots of data showing that small, cheap changes to the road infrastructure can make a large impact in both traffics and taxes.
The one major thing lacking on Linux is a good TTS system. Try listening to espeak for mote than 5 minutes and you'll see what I mean.
If WhisperSpeech finally ends up being what brings Linux TTS and accessibility into the 21st century, then I'll be ecstatic. Great work, Collabora team!
I'd recommend finding some FOSS projects to contribute to so that you can stay sharp and also add stuff to your resume. Plenty out there that needs worked on, and not all of it can be done by people working full time at another job.
What's your degree in?
One of my friends and I end up troubleshooting for an hour before we can actually start playing games. Every single time. Linux just doesn't want us to play games together, I guess.
WA is basically South BC anyway. Makes sense why our hockey team would do better than the rest of our sports.
That's a good one, but I believe OP wants it to be personalized to their area
If you take out the star, there are only two lines; one connected by the upper two circles, and one connecting the "dog nose" on the right to the lower bouncing circle.