[Lion Den Dan]

There, I got it out of my system......

Glad to be of service.

Traffic is indicative of the amount of business being done. When the traffic strangles business, business will move elsewhere. Traffic problem solved. Want business, build roads. Want depression, don't worry about it.

[weegee]

Traffic is indicative of the amount of business being done. When the traffic strangles business, business will move elsewhere. Traffic problem solved. Want business, build roads. Want depression, don't worry about it.

In the case of Houston, the area around the old baseball park has fallen into economic disaster while rent around the new ballpark downtown is booming.

I have to chuckle when I consider that intially Houston's plains for modern rail "had" to go to the old train station. When that fell through, the basball park "had" to be placed there.

Sounds like the first priority was to reuse this decades old property (and the rail excuse has not been cited since).

[Ben Mugged]

There are other ways. My recommendation to the city of San Jose California was to permit businesses to build condominiums above their offices. Low cost housing and day care coupled with private schools and entertainment would be a good enticement for workers. If you quit your job, you get to move out. Commute would be an elevator ride. The businesses were very interested but the city was only interested in the loss of real estate value in their suburbs with corresponding loss in revenue. The state of California wanted to tax the free condo as income and did not want to license private schools on site.

Every solution comes with its own set of problems.