Won’t we just get more “white flight” as these plans are implemented? All this will accomplish is pushing nicer suburban areas farther and farther out from the central city.
We already see this in some areas. In the Washington area, for example, the distant formerly rural town of Frederick Maryland, and Frederick County, has experienced substantial suburban development in recent years. I think people have shown they will be willing to move farther and farther out, to avoid areas with, shall we say, sociological problems.
The people who can move will move, and those left behind will tend to be less well off.
“Won’t we just get more “white flight” as these plans are implemented? All this will accomplish is pushing nicer suburban areas farther and farther out from the central city.”
What’s happening in Boston and parts of NYC is that they are becoming gentrified and thus very expensive. Some of the “white flgiht” is into the cities.
Horrendous organizations like Project Hope are relocating the dead beats to the suburbs.
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It’ll push the law-abiding away from the tentacles of public transportation once more.
Not something that environmentalist liberals will be happy to see.
And jobs follow them. In N Metro ATL we have high-tech business centers in suburbs like Johns Creek and the Windward parkway area, because that’s where businesses relocated their employees when they moved here.