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> Centralized planning worked for the Insterstate Highway System [1], which was considered successful. Considered successful by some, perhaps, and probably not
by baddox 11y ago
> Centralized planning worked for the Insterstate Highway System [1], which was considered successful.
Considered successful by some, perhaps, and probably not so much by others. Like people who don't like global warming or highway deaths, to give two examples.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoInterstates are the safest roads in the country, with dramatically lower fatality rates per mile. Sources: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2011/html/table_02_18.html http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub... http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.cfm#question16 http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.cfm#question16
- Zach_the_Lizard 11y agoI wonder if the passenger and freight rail lines the interstates helped kill were safer still and building the highways might have increased fatalities by switching from rail to driving despite being safer than the older US highways.
- baddox 11y agoIt would be extremely difficult for me to imagine that not being the case.
- baddox 11y agoAll else being equal, adding new roads with a lower death rate per mile than existing roads is not exactly an improvement to road safety.