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I'm getting a bit of a chuckle over these suggestions of "backup roads" and "alternative routes." NoVa is just as strapped for housing as it is for transporta

I'm getting a bit of a chuckle over these suggestions of "backup roads" and "alternative routes." NoVa is just as strapped for housing as it is for transportation. Mass transit in this area doesn't and won't work, no matter how much money is poured in, because much of it is not a "city" in the usual sense, but rather endless miles of suburban sprawl stretching from one horizon to the opposite. The only viable solution- though the idea seems to make people break out in a rash- is to move the capital. Move it somewhere central to the nation, geographically speaking, keep it as compact as possible, and for heaven's sake prohibit its use as a place of residence (ahem).

rbanffy 5y ago
> no matter how much money is poured in Challenge accepted. Now we need the money.
maxwell 5y ago
Agreed, let's combine the Kansas Cities into a new Metropolis federal district on the Missouri River. https://qr.ae/pG6gOR https://qr.ae/pG6gOR https://smallville.fandom.com/wiki/Metropolis https://smallville.fandom.com/wiki/Metropolis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749590 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/yes-lets-move-capital-nebraska-immediately/356737 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/yes-let...
asdff 5y ago
Where would they possibly move it? St. Louis and everywhere else you could imagine that isn't a corn field or a feedlot in the central U.S. also has suburbs sprawling to the horizon and suburban office parks. Constructing a new capital in the middle of nowhere is like corrupt dictator tier stuff.
- ninefathom 5y ago
  "Constructing a new capital in the middle of nowhere" What? You mean the middle of nowhere like some sparsely-populated riverbanks near the border between two states that happens to be near the geographic center of the nation at the time it's built, but hours away from the nearest metropolitan areas? Yeah that's a crazy idea - the United States would never do that.

rbanffy 5y ago

> no matter how much money is poured in Challenge accepted. Now we need the money.

maxwell 5y ago

Agreed, let's combine the Kansas Cities into a new Metropolis federal district on the Missouri River. https://qr.ae/pG6gOR https://qr.ae/pG6gOR https://smallville.fandom.com/wiki/Metropolis https://smallville.fandom.com/wiki/Metropolis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749590 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/yes-lets-move-capital-nebraska-immediately/356737 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/yes-let...

asdff 5y ago

Where would they possibly move it? St. Louis and everywhere else you could imagine that isn't a corn field or a feedlot in the central U.S. also has suburbs sprawling to the horizon and suburban office parks. Constructing a new capital in the middle of nowhere is like corrupt dictator tier stuff.

ninefathom 5y ago
"Constructing a new capital in the middle of nowhere" What? You mean the middle of nowhere like some sparsely-populated riverbanks near the border between two states that happens to be near the geographic center of the nation at the time it's built, but hours away from the nearest metropolitan areas? Yeah that's a crazy idea - the United States would never do that.