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Expansion doesn't take land if the state already had reserved that land for itself. Many highways have huge rights of way beside them because the state had gra
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Expansion doesn't take land if the state already had reserved that land for itself. Many highways have huge rights of way beside them because the state had grand plans for expansion when they were built in the 50s-70s.
- ericmay 5y agoWhich is kind of like an accounting trick. The state already has the land, run a rail line through it instead of expanding it, etc. But ultimately the expansion of the highways has downstream effects - state will buy new land, build new roads, etc. as density flows out. If you have a two lane highway going into a city and it's congested, and then you expand it, more people move out of the city or more further away - obviously someone is building new roads or expanding existing ones as that occurs.