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The rest of the country keeps its transit infrastructure costs down by refusing to have transit. New York and California have plenty of roads.
by closeparen 6y ago
The rest of the country keeps its transit infrastructure costs down by refusing to have transit.
New York and California have plenty of roads.
- Ericson2314 6y agoAnd roads aren't even cheap, but they are nice and decentralized and do not require smart planners. That's a nice resiliency and I give roads credit where they are due for it. But cars are terrible and we simple cannot continue to do the easy status quo thing.
- closeparen 6y agoGrids can be resilient, but these days we protect neighborhoods from traffic by forcing use of arterials/collectors that become single points of failure. Often this is even retrofitted onto grids via turn restrictions.