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The potential upside of delaying highway construction by a few decades is that you could, in theory, reconsider whether it's still a good idea. Of course that's
by dao- 5y ago
The potential upside of delaying highway construction by a few decades is that you could, in theory, reconsider whether it's still a good idea. Of course that's usually not what's going to happen, and most likely the project will be pushed through anyway when there's hardly any public support left for it, as with Berlin's infamous A100 extension cutting through the city.
- bipson 5y agoOh, I"m all for not building highways at all and pushing the alternatives (e.g. public transport, cargo on rails). But this is a special situation, a really small gap between the Swiss highway and the Austrian/German highway, so transit had to go through the villages and clogging up everything at the bottlenecks along the border (or in Höchst, Hard, Bregenz, Lustenau, Hohenems, Feldkirch etc.)
- wongarsu 5y agoIt looks like they have to bridge 5km/3mi? Sure, there's one bridge involved, but that's an awfully short distance to plan for 40 years.
- bipson 5y agoAt the narrowest point it would be ~2km, but this variant has not been considered for years... The variant that (at the time) is supposed to be built would be 8.6km.