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Alain Bertaud: belief

25 Sept 2019 Conversations with Tyler Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People

“I think that then the people who want in will have more say. If you keep it at the street level, the people who control it are the people who are living there, and they are against everybody who wants to move in, by definition.”

— Alain Bertaud

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Speaker
Alain Bertaud
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
25 Sept 2019
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…And what do you think would happen then? I think that then the people who want in will have more say. If you keep it at the street level, the people who control it are the people who are living there, and they are against everybody who wants to move in, by definition. I’ve another very easy question for you. As you probably know, many of the switches in the New York City subway system date from the 1940s, or sometimes even the 1930s. How are we going to fix that system? If NIMBY is ruling, how do we redo the subways? The 2nd Avenue line — that was started or planned in the early ’70s, and it just now opened, what, a year ago? What’s going to happen with the New York City subway?…

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