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> If Seattle can survive for a couple of weeks without a major chunk of its freeway system, that’s a powerful indication that more modest steps to alter road ca
by hellllllllooo 8y ago
> If Seattle can survive for a couple of weeks without a major chunk of its freeway system, that’s a powerful indication that more modest steps to alter road capacity don’t really mean the end of the world.
It's a little bit of a stretch. The problems people are facing due to road closures are not measured by images of Google maps. Just because complete gridlock doesn't happen doesn't mean that people aren't having significant problems because of it. People adapt but this article provides no real way to measure the cost.
- ip26 8y agoThe point of this article is that people say "complete gridlock will happen", and it doesn't. (Not even close)
- closeparen 8y agoThe point of the article in its social context is that we don't really need so much transportation capacity, so it would be okay to remove permanently. This is a blog about urban planning, not construction logistics.
- grogenaut 8y agoThe only things I've seen that causes complete gridlock in Seattle were a freak snowstorm/ice at 3pm, a butane truck closing i5 and major arteries downtown and Obama. And Obama wasn't that bad most of the time. But those were literally no one can move anywhere nor can people reparj and stop. This is know and plannable. Seattle has a remarkable amount of work hour flexibility in the short term. They closed 90 a few years back for a week, asked 50k to stay home and iirc got around 110k who did.
- Aloha 8y agoObama made me late to work twice in a two month time period, I found this amusing at the time, and still do.