• @grue
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    542 minutes ago

    These are supposed to be satirical, but this one is literally true.

    Source: I’m a former traffic engineer.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 hour ago

      I dislike cars generally but how is engineering traffic to be safer for all parties like the designs pictured a bad idea?

  • @[email protected]
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    153 hours ago

    The thing is that two more lanes will fix a lot of traffic.

    They have to be a special kind of lane though, made put of metal, with metal above, and require a special car, with metal wheels and a weird antenna on the roof

  • Ebby
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    2 minutes ago

    The graphic designer has a misinformed idea about engineering.

    Cars are not meant to travel fast through cities.

    This is true. City traffic planning was designed to maximize efficiency, not speed. This is no longer the case of many cities which now engineer congestion into design.

    Rush hour traffic still goes to a crawl

    People assume traffic represents failure, but the road still holds capacity, even if flowing slowly. Government data collection on infrastructure utilization and traffic recovery is prohibited in my area by vocal minorities to obstruct studies countering their goal objectives.

    … Something something Trains

    Trains are fun!

    Just one more lane will fix it

    I agree adding one lane won’t “fix” traffic. Cities are organic and traffic balances out with infrastructure pressure and necessary.

    On the other hand, many lanes around my area have converted to dynamically priced toll lanes; the resulting increase in congestion for remaining lanes drives up the cost of tolls. This has been very profitable for the government and flies in the face of this argument; if it were true, it wouldn’t be so lucrative.

  • DreamButt
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    43 hours ago

    Except actually tho