Is Medicare-for-all *not* an improvement on the ACA? The ACA was an expansion of health insurance by three broad methods: 1) Expansion of Medicaid, 2) Creating the exchanges where individuals can get access to group rates, and subsidies to help pay for them, and 3) Implementing rules that make it harder for companies…

But he has been doing that, for years actually. Democrats will say he’s not doing enough, but now we’re just talking a matter of degrees. And the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress and the White House (albeit briefly) and the biggest problem was...Democrats, like Bart Stupak or Joe Lieberman, who were…

“it would be MADNESS to scrap Obamacare (which is working!) and start over”

Not fighting for something is the surest and quickest way to not get it.

I think Bernie is waiting to see what happens with the FBI investigation. He’s the fail safe if the worst happens for Hillary and she’s forced to exit the race.

Completely pitiful? The APTA named us “America’s Best” ten years ago, and we have the best transit access in the nation: http://thesource.metro.net/2011/08/22/los…

Southern California is very diverse but also very segregated racially and economically. The Blue Line serves some of the poorer, mostly Latino and Black neighborhoods in the county.

Yes you can blame the author. First, don’t compare “metro areas” because Metro the transit agency does not serve the “LA metro area,” it serves Los Angeles County, which means it serves 10 million people, not 13 million.

“That’s weird as I know TX had decent luck with doing just that,”

“Make it too expensive to live there, which is already happening with SF and NYC.”

“Yes those tend to alleviate traffic quite a bit, because they run on roughly same route as driving would be.”

“If we follow your logic all the way through then self-driving low cost Ubers will do the same thing.”

“I’m not talking Ubers specifically, but say restaurants, they have to have cars on hand for deliveries at all times, those cars have to be kept somewhere.”

“Where do you propose those cars are kept at off-peak business hours?”

“if self-driving cars would indeed be expected to decrease car ownership car manufacturers wouldn’t be working on them.”

I don’t know why you think I’m advocating for, or envisioning a future without transit. The entire article is about San Francisco, which has local bus and heavy rail system, as well as regional commuter rail. Of course transit needs to be part of the mix.

“Not what I was saying at all.”

New York City Zoning Code: http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/plannin…

Every city in America mandates parking as part of their zoning codes. Even New York. If you find a building that doesn’t have parking with it, it was most likely built before the code existed and was grandfathered in. If it’s a new building it may have been given an exemption in exchange for something else (like…

This is why we need to replace the property tax with a land value tax. Right now property owners have incentive to just keep a lot empty and let the value rise before they sell, because taxes are applied to real property, so as you build on it, you’ll pay more than if you had just left it empty. We need to discourage…