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Originally Posted by muertecaza
Pretty wild though that the best solution we've come up with is building dense greenfield developments ~40 miles away and shipping people into cities by the train-full.
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I mean it's not really a new practice in many other places, but it requires good transit coverage and decent speeds. The faster the trains are, the further away from the core developments like this should be viable. With true high-speed rail there shouldn't be any reason that someone couldn't work in the Bay Area and buy a $250,000 condo in Stockton, protecting valuable farmland and ecological areas between the two.