Recent content by acpme

No doubt that there's more cars on the roads in areas where homes have replaced agricultural land. But mass transit because there's 10k more cars? Monorail!

The prestige credit card business isn't that much of a money maker for the issuing banks. If anything its a function of intense competition and the margins on the business are lower than one might think. The holy grail of prestige cards used to the Amex Black card. You had to spend $250k per...

Traffic counts in heart of Irvine per OCTA. 2017 on left, 2007 on right. Numbers represent 000's of avg daily cars. So what do we see? Contrary to popular believe, traffic on Culver is unchanged in the last 10 years - if anything slightly less. Its also lower on Jamboree. On Jeffrey its up 30%...

Mass transit in sunbelt states... enjoy walking around in the summer! I spend a lot of time in TX and using public transportation in its sprawling cities 9 months out of the year is not fun. Unless you live in Downtown Dallas, which only has a residential population of 5k people, DART is not...

It pains me to contribute to this thread... yet I have too many stories from just a few months of living around FCB than I'd like to admit.

Macroeconomic forecasts have been volatile, like the stock market. It's undeniable that growth is stronger than it was in 2016 going into mid 2017. We are now in the 2nd longest expansion and approaching the longest, yet the economy is getting a 2nd wind. It''s also true that the pop in the...

According to Austin's metro website, these are the M-Th hours for the train. Trains every 30 min doesn't seem like enough for rush hour. The 6:30 pm final train renders this method of transportation unusable for many workers, especially younger ones that tend to work later or go out after work...

OKC might be an exception, but even in the reddest states, the central counties of their large metros generally are blue. It's certainly true of Texas. Austin is definitely not a GOP stronghold. The motto of the town is "Keep Austin weird". The Texas state govt is relatively small so it's really...

That's right. YIMBYs can be left-leaning working class that simply want more development because at some point a saturation of housing will put pressure on prices. YIMBYs can also be right-leaning developers who simply want to be able to build.

The CBD of NYC is pretty much all Manhattan. It's worth noting most financial services, aka Wall St, is all over the city but most heavily clustered around Midtown, not Wall St. Having said that, financial tenants are starting to move all over the city and care less about a Park Ave address...

I don't know Durham but Austin and OKC have downtowns. Austin in particular has a growing, walkable, amenitized downtown which is a convergence of commerce, government, and a major university just a stones throw away. There's a huge parking problem in Austin as sites that used to be parking have...

In Irvine we should start IWIHBY -- I wish I had a back yard.

Amazingly I'm with Star on this one. Mass transit is not the solution. It's a last gen solution and not a next gen one. Also, mass transit works best in major cities centered around a downtown core. It's a hub and spoke that brings people from the burbs into the center where commerce is...

Any discussion of mass transit that ignores the impact of ride sharing would be foolish. Humans by default will prioritize their own comfort and convenience. Big cities with decent public and private (yellow cab) transportation infrastructure are seeing huge disruption from ride sharing. And...

LA, SF, SJ, OC, Sac, you name it... use google. Honestly trying to deny there's not even a few YIMBY movements out there? Are you living under a rock and what people are saying about housing and affordability in CA? How can you be against NIMBYism and at the same time be defensive about...