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They should first figure out how to make average worker spend less than one 55 minutes commuting by public transit each way.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20160418/parisians-spend-23-days-a-y...

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That's pretty much exactly what they're trying to do.

And that's not feasible. You can't just reduce the average commuting time to work by 40 minutes magically

The city / region has been working on that by decentralizing major government and business institutions. By pushing them out of the core in to neighboring suburbs it allows those employees a real chance at living near work in more than 15m2.

At the end of the day the only real solution to commutes / crowding is going to be spreading the load out on more communes and cities.

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