Quick Post

I have spoken about this before, in earlier posts. Now it looks like CNN has caught up to my prognostication. Check out this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/16/suburb.city/index.html

I am not sure why this is in the Technology section...

The crux of the article is that the suburbs are becoming rapidly out-moded. But as inner-city areas become more attractive and desirable, gentrification ensues driving up prices and driving out lower-income folks. Thus, those who are least able to commute long distances are the ones who are being forced to. The suburbs were designed around the automobile - mass transit doesn't work well out there because it is expensive to drive big buses along residential streets. But the people who need the mass transit are the ones who are being displaced by the gentrification.

My next prognostication: decreased service levels to the suburbs as cities focus on inner-city redevelopment - less money to maintain decaying and out-moded infrastructure in the outlying, money-sucking suburbs, thus placing a dis-proportional burden (again) on those least able to absorb it.

Remember, you read it here first!