The housing away from the city still needs to be pretty dense, otherwise you're building a ton of infrastructure to transport few people (or people need to drive / take the bus to the train station which isn't the end of the world).
> I can see residents downtown paying the most taxes being against it though - all it does for them in personal terms is erode their power.
It could also help subsidize their taxes to some extent since commuters are occupying offices and spending money in the city without occupying housing. Depends how things are set up. I don't think the people living in Manhattan resent people commuting from Jersey or Queens for work.
> I can see residents downtown paying the most taxes being against it though - all it does for them in personal terms is erode their power.
It could also help subsidize their taxes to some extent since commuters are occupying offices and spending money in the city without occupying housing. Depends how things are set up. I don't think the people living in Manhattan resent people commuting from Jersey or Queens for work.