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If LA is anything to go by, building these large elevated highways wouldn't have fixed anything. Tokyo does have a lot of elevated highways, admittedly, and tha
by cameronh90 5y ago
If LA is anything to go by, building these large elevated highways wouldn't have fixed anything. Tokyo does have a lot of elevated highways, admittedly, and that has a certain aesthetic appeal there, but it's a very different place. If the elevated highways in London had ended up anything like the Westway, it would have been awful.
I do agree that we could do with more Park and Rides though. In the past, I've parked at the O2 because there's always space in the day, then took the Jubilee line in.
- pm215 5y agoSome of Tokyo's elevated highways are an aesthetic disaster; the one that goes very low over the Nihonbashi bridge is the classic example. On the bright side they are finally planning to move that particular expressway underground... https://theolympians.co/2017/07/25/nihonbashi-uncovered-the-eyesore-of-1964-to-disappear-after-2020/ https://theolympians.co/2017/07/25/nihonbashi-uncovered-the-...