• @[email protected]
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    1051 month ago

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

    • @DrunkEngineer
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      421 month ago

      No, it’s gotten worse over the past 30 years.

        • EleventhHour
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          161 month ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              101 month ago

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

            • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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              11 month ago

              Disc golf has gotten better there. And Wawa has opened some stores. That is about it.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 month 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.

        • @DrunkEngineer
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          71 month 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/

          • @pdxfed
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            11 month ago

            Probably just need that one last name added and it’ll finally pan out.

        • @GlendatheGayWitch
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          71 month 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.

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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      361 month ago

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

  • @Sanctus
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    241 month ago

    Dont forget bow much a car dependent society empowers automobile manufacturers.

  • @EnderMB
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    41 month 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.