American cities have too much Suburban Sprawl

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don't the two issues pretty much intersect though, sprawl is a direct result of massive growth in the immediate counties surrounding most of these bigger cities fueled by the growth of the core cities economic base.

Yeah, and gives these greedy real estate developers and owners a reason to jack up the cost of living and making commutes on rush hour twice as long. Overpopulation is a real thing and its breaking down infrastructure faster than what it can build it to be.
 

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Brooklyn keeps on taking it.
Me too. I would love to see the 2 and 5 train not being crowded like the early 2000s, once again. But people insist on having their bacon egg and cheese sandwich at 3am or eating chopped cheese around the clock, but stay pissed off at people because they want solitude. :yeshrug:

I remember the Q, or better yet when it was the D train not being insanely crowded.

The 4/5 trains I remembered always being very crowded since a little kid but mainly around Brooklyn Bridge.
 

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if planned correctly, some sprawl is ok with me. need to get more employers to spread out their offices vs. concentrating in one area, driving up demand and making people live like sardines. there is a fine line in urban density and many cities have pushed it too far, neither one is sustainable.
 

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of course, after 1950, America has sucked on building cities. That includes most of the Sunbelt. For instance, with Houston, I can live inside the loop. You can have the rest of the city.
 

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Me too. I would love to see the 2 and 5 train not being crowded like the early 2000s, once again. But people insist on having their bacon egg and cheese sandwich at 3am or eating chopped cheese around the clock, but stay pissed off at people because they want solitude. :yeshrug:

shyt has to change here but it’s not. People are still packing the city out and I truly wonder if they believe there’s that much opportunity here? Because I don’t consider doing retail an opportunity if you could do that same shyt in Florida.
 

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shyt has to change here but it’s not. People are still packing the city out and I truly wonder if they believe there’s that much opportunity here? Because I don’t consider doing retail an opportunity if you could do that same shyt in Florida.

Or even a good profession like an IT worker or accountant, cause after paying bills, most people are broke in NY. No disposable income and overcrowding = frustration. Its not how much your earn, its how much you keep.
 

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That's so true. Most American cities are really just big suburbs

I look at Houston, TX and most of it is less walkable than the NYC suburbs
Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, and most sunbelt cities are basically giant suburbs. They starting to turn it around though but gotta build the core and then out. Use to be LA was called a giant suburb but it is dense enough and there is no city like it in the world that people give it a pass.
 

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There was a section of the Q train that was the D line?

Yes before 2001 the D train ran Brighton line local with the Q orange color being express.

When they shut down the 6th ave side of the Manhattan bridge and all the trains had to run through broadway the D/B terminated at 34th and the trains that ran by my house were the Yellow colored Q and Q diamond express.

The B was replaced by the W.

When they finished the repairs they brought the B/D back to Brooklyn but instead of putting the D back to its original local route they moved it to the West End line and then they kept the yellow Q local and made the B run express down Brighton.

Recap:

Before 2001
B - West end local
D - Brighton local
Q - orange color and Brighton express

Between 2001 and 2004
W (new) - replaces B at West End
Q - yellow pad replaces D Brighton local
Q diamond - yellow replaces Q orange Brighton express

After 2004
B - runs express via Brighton
D - runs local via West End
Q - remains colored yellow and runs local via Brighton
W - last stop Whitehall St local

The Manhattan Bridge construction had all these trains playing musical chairs.
 

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Or even a good profession like an IT worker or accountant, cause after paying bills, most people are broke in NY. No disposable income and overcrowding = frustration. Its not how much your earn, its how much you keep.

High income earners in NYC and other large cities (except SF) are broke because of self entitlement.

“i make six figures so let me buy a BMW in Manhattan just to pay $300 month in parking, and since I’m better than everyone let me get a $200 gym pass instead of a $20 dollar a month blink pass”.
 
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