I am responding to the article titled, "Improving roads key to state plans to increase housing production."
There are two problems – housing affordability and traffic. They are both important to solve, but not equally important. And solving traffic is in direct contradiction to solving affordability. The need for new housing does not stop growing because the traffic situation remains unsolved. And, of course, new housing to make things affordable inherently increases traffic. Each person in the county needs to decide which is the priority and how much of a priority it is. Is housing affordability or traffic the bigger issue?
I think it is an obvious moral imperative to provide people places to live even if it makes traffic worse. We can survive bad traffic, but people need to live. Housing people should not be held hostage to traffic issues. So, improving roads should not be key to any plans for increasing housing production. That is putting things in the wrong priority. The attitude should be: Housing must be built regardless, and if we don't want traffic to get (more) unbearable, roads infrastructure will also need to be built.
Don't make the kinds of mistakes California, New York and so many places in between have made by letting people throw up roadblocks.
Matthew G Leeds
Lewes
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