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Gotta disagree. The easiest example to look at is the Interstate Highway System. They busted up downtowns and put giant highways through them so people could
by rjbwork 10y ago
Gotta disagree. The easiest example to look at is the Interstate Highway System. They busted up downtowns and put giant highways through them so people could get to and from the suburbs and the cities. Baltimore, Atlanta, LA, DC, Boston, DFW, NO, etc. all have peculiarly similar interstate structures.
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- gnaritas 10y agoI think you're confusing highways and freeways, the Interstate Highway System has nothing to do with suburbs, it connects cities to each other. And cities build freeways because locals demand them, because they don't want to live in the city. That's not government creating suburbs, that's government responding to the desire for suburbs. Suburban sprawl tends to happen first, and then freeways are built to connect them to the city faster.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoCities don't build freeways, the feds build freeways (sometimes the state will build a highway, but it's mostly feds).
- gnaritas 10y agoCorrection noted, but the funding source doesn't change my point. Demand drives the building of city freeways, the freeways don't create the sprawl, the sprawl creates the demand for freeways.