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> This freeway project costs $22 million per mile. And look how much was achieved for that money. Apparently not much. Whatever capacity gains appeared were im
by Tiktaalik 10y ago
> This freeway project costs $22 million per mile.
And look how much was achieved for that money. Apparently not much. Whatever capacity gains appeared were immediately gobbled up. And what next? Scaling further will be harder and more expensive.
It's not enough to compare highway costs and transit costs independent of everything. We need to consider the long term implications of the design choices that are being made.
This point additionally references your comments about how transportation works with the existing infrastructure. We can keep doubling down on the way things have been done for the last 50 years, but I think cities need to take a step back, be more reflective about what they're doing, and work toward undoing some of the effects of bad decisions made decades earlier.