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Take the however-many billions of dollars each city is currently spending to build new (or bigger) freeways. Spend that same money on buses instead. Instead o
by grecy 7y ago
Take the however-many billions of dollars each city is currently spending to build new (or bigger) freeways.
Spend that same money on buses instead.
Instead of millions of cars that carry 1 person to a max of 5, lets have thousands of buses that carry ~40-80 people.
In the years to come when there are less vehicles on the road, we can start closing roads, like Paris does (or did).
Or, you know, do absolutely nothing. Improve nothing. Move forward with nothing. Complain about everything, and every idea to improve stuff.
- goostavos 7y agoWhen the "ideas to improve stuff" stop being hopelessly naive, the critiques will surely lessen.
- grecy 7y agoLet's hear your idea then. There are an awful lot of people nay-saying ideas to make stuff better and extraordinarily few people coming up with ideas to make stuff better. What do you think will be the outcome of that?
- lawnchair_larry 7y ago“We must do something, X is something, therefore we must do X” is a logical fallacy. Doing nothing is better than doing something costly and ineffective (or worse).
- laughinghan 7y agoEvery single one of those ideas have been proven workable in hundreds of cities around the world. That comment even lists a city where they've been successful: Paris
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoAre there any cities that are actually building new or wider highways (not just improving interchanges/exits)? Seems like most cities have stopped building new highways.
- magduf 7y agoYes: DC. They're widening I-66, because too many people moved way out to the exurbs and commute into the city every day, taking 1-2 hours each way. So they're adding lanes on this highway, which will cause even more people to move out to the exurbs, and won't help at all. Meanwhile, they're refusing to extend the subway line out in that direction, even though a single train can carry hundreds of commuters at a time, and they'll all going the exact same direction.