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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
Robert Cervero at UC Berkeley has demonstrated that the only differences are easily explained by self-selection: people who are inclined to an urban walkable lifestyle choose to live there and those who aren't, don't.
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Indeed. Who cares if it's largely due to self-selection? It's still fewer auto trips per capita than at non-TOD sites, so why not provide more options for people to self-select themselves into, rather than mandate endless suburbia so we can maintain precious precious Level-of-Service C at all times of the day? I don't get why it's a given in this country that it's a constitutional right to make it through every intersection in the first light cycle at all times of day on every day of the year.
You even said yourself that housing location decisions have to balance the work locations of all workers in the household. Why not ensure that as many locations as possible give the option for the urban lifestyle, so couples aren't forced to live in transit- and pedestrian-hostile neighborhoods as a result of balancing husband and wife's commutes?