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Right, I was adding more detail as to why US roads are wider, they're arterials. That and signal spacing and lane width is based solely around throughput in mos
by Karrot_Kream 4y ago
Right, I was adding more detail as to why US roads are wider, they're arterials. That and signal spacing and lane width is based solely around throughput in most of the US.
Too much online literature throws around "subsidizes" blindly without going deeper.
- frosted-flakes 4y agoThese vehicles are not directly subsidized in the form of a cash rebate or tax refund, but they are heavily subsidized by the general public through regulations for minimum parking mandates, free highways everywhere, excess road capacity, wide lanes, perverse incentives to build further apart, and a whole host of other measures that prop up car dependency in the US.
- imtringued 4y agoThe subsidy is in the infrastructure but the car lets you increase your exposure to the subsidy.