• @[email protected]
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    1052 months ago

    This legit happened to the entire US in the 50s and 60s, and has only sligjtly improved in the past 30 years

        • EleventhHour
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          162 months ago

          Depends on where you are. It’s gotten much worse in Florida.

            • @[email protected]
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              102 months ago

              Considering Florida is literally a sinking state physically and politically, I wouldn’t expect much

          • @AlligatorBlizzard
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            52 months ago

            Eh, my mom did the park and ride thing and took the train to work in Orlando for a few years before she retired. It’s not enough, but a few cities are taking some steps in the right direction.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 months ago

          In TX not only have they added highway, but many new highways are Toll roads. Somehow the city councils get duped with a presentation that building another lane on the highway won’t help, but building two in the name of a private company will.

          They don’t even take care of the toll roads as well as the public roads either.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 months ago

          We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles of road in the largest 100 urbanized areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42 percent. That rate of freeway expansion significantly outstripped the 32 percent growth in population in those regions over the same time period. Yet this strategy has utterly failed to “solve” the problem at hand—delay is up in those urbanized areas by a staggering 144 percent.

          https://t4america.org/maps-tools/congestion-con/

    • @[email protected]
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      362 months ago

      Robert Moses would have scoffed at that pic. You don’t build onramps around the historical buildings, you tear the historical buildings down.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 months ago

    Uhhh…as someone in the UK, I would probably rethink holding us to some beacon of transport perfection. Our rail system is heavily privatised, and costs so much that we regularly see stories of how it would cost less to fly to mainland Europe and then to London instead of getting the train from say Bristol.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      92 months ago

      Nobody said we were holding you to perfection mate, we’re just enjoying your old ads