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> Urban solutions do not always work across a country as vast, huge, and diverse as the US. US is a huge country, but people aren’t travelling across it on a r
by pharmakom 3y ago
> Urban solutions do not always work across a country as vast, huge, and diverse as the US.
US is a huge country, but people aren’t travelling across it on a regular basis.
- justajot 3y agoYes, and the highway system was originally intended as defense infrastructure to more easily move equipment across the country. A great idea, but a design that was not originally intended to plow right through cities. This has been a big contributor to the mess that we are in when it comes to urban / suburban design and the extreme lack of walkability.
- standyro 3y agoNot true. They were definitely intended to plow right through cities. That’s why they built highways/freeways right through urban cores, or planned entire metro regions around them.
- fnimick 3y agoSpecifically, right through minority neighborhoods in cities. You can't ignore the explicitly racist history of urban "renewal" when discussing freeway planning.