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Maybe it wasn't the wisest idea for the state to fund an Interstate Highways System and all it's associated infrastructure 50+ years ago. I've always wondered w
by brbsix 11y ago
Maybe it wasn't the wisest idea for the state to fund an Interstate Highways System and all it's associated infrastructure 50+ years ago. I've always wondered what the U.S. would look like had we not taken that route. I suspect the sprawl would have been massively curtailed and our lives would be much more harmonious. Who knows, maybe we'd be taking cross-country trips in hyperloops instead of automobiles?
- dinkumthinkum 11y agoNo, having an Interstate Highway system is a good thing. I don't know if not having one would have led to a communal hippy utopia or not but if it I certainly wouldn't want to live there. :)
- wcummings 11y agoHighways are good for fighting wars.
- angersock 11y agoThis. There's a very good reason the system looks and acts like it does.
- CapitalistCartr 11y agoAnd that is why its named the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
- tormeh 11y agoExhibit one: The autobahn.
- alphapapa 11y agoI suspect the sprawl would have been massively curtailed and our lives would be much more harmonious. Harmonious? Do you not have neighbors? It's impossible to have a moment's peace in even a suburban environment. Between cars driving around with absurdly powerful subwoofers making their presence literally felt for a quarter-mile everywhere they go, loud truck engines and mufflers made purposefully loud, incessant backup beepers even in the middle of the night, neighbors with no respect for other people, cheaply built apartments, dogs barking...the list goes on and on. Surely ancient Rome was noisy, but they didn't have machines, and they didn't have people roaming around operating devices whose sole purpose is to make enough noise to be heard inside people's homes for hundreds of meters in every direction. It only takes a small percentage of the population doing things like this to make everyone else miserable. And good luck legislating against it when powerful lobbies operate on behalf of companies whose existence depends on the legality of operating said equipment without restriction. People weren't meant to be crammed together and stacked on top of each other. People need room. And if people want room, who are you to say they shouldn't be able to have it?
- brbsix 11y agoPeople need room. And if people want room, who are you to say they shouldn't be able to have it? I'm not saying people shouldn't be able to have room. I just don't want to subsidize it.