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The road that connects my subdivision street to the rest of the city I live in is woefully under-engineered--but it wasn't when it was built. It used to be your
by nathanaldensr 4y ago
The road that connects my subdivision street to the rest of the city I live in is woefully under-engineered--but it wasn't when it was built. It used to be your simple country farm road. The road has no sidewalks and no paved shoulders; the white lines are inches from soft dirt. The speed limit is 35 mph, but most drivers now drive at least 45 mph. In the past couple of years, tons of people have moved into my city from the far-away coasts, increasing traffic greatly on the road. The city obviously can't keep up as the city was primarily a retirement community and agricultural center.
The city is partially responsible because it has allowed development to occur too rapidly. The city's road infrastructure simply can't keep pace. Hell, most of our roads don't even have pipe drains but instead use culverts designed 100 years ago.
It's a sorry state.
- Zircom 4y agoYeah it's ridiculous what they let these companies get away with building without properly expanding the infrastructure people are gonna be using to actually access their houses. In DFW they slowly expand outwards by building these housing developments like 20-30 minutes farther from where "civilization" ends out in "the countryside", so you have these huge suburban hellscapes smackdab in the middle of rolling farmland and cattle and small country houses, and not any kind of retail stores for miles. My brother lives in one of these, and there's easily 1000+ houses in his neighbor and the other 3 or 4 immediately surrounding it, and the only way to get to any of them is a single two lane road that stretches for a few miles off the state highway it branches off of. Around 8am/5pm it takes literally hours to make it out or get back to your house because of how many cars there are backed up.