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That's amazing. Meanwhile, in some other first world countries (allegedly): "come on bro, just one more lane, and increase the speed limit, that'll definitely f
by Tomis02 3y ago
That's amazing. Meanwhile, in some other first world countries (allegedly): "come on bro, just one more lane, and increase the speed limit, that'll definitely fix traffic and make everything better".
- mvdtnz 3y agoAh this old strawman.
- quickthrower2 3y agoIn Sydney it is one more tunnel! I am not against it as the infra could be used by an army of electric buses that could be a psuedo-metro. Please do that!
- andyferris 3y agoThey kinda did that in Brissie!
- rtpg 3y agoSeriously, at least in France the big success story in my book has been the use of heavy-duty buses to expand transit networks. You just gotta take over existing lanes, and you make your main bus lanes have buses every 5 minutes or so. It's not ideal but it exists and works. Highly recommend as an alternative to wishing for metro lines.
- jacquesm 3y agoThey did the same thing in Bogota, Colombia. Massive project but when I was there it seemed to have paid off very well.
- quickthrower2 3y agoIt is adaptive! You can change the routes based on demand or even time of day.
- virtue3 3y agoYeah it's a known thing now that widening highways / adding more throughput does not ease congestion etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html#:~:text=But%20while%20adding%20lanes%20can,along%20with%20it%20%E2%80%94%20often%20returns https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic....
- gotoeleven 3y ago[flagged]
- InitialLastName 3y agoWhy is the argument from proponents of road widening always "It will ease congestion" rather than "more people will be able to drive"?
- ebabani 3y agoThe fuck are you going on about? You think everyone driving is ever going to be sustainable?
- throwawa14223 3y agoOut of curiosity why wouldn't it be? Technology is improving all the time. We'll solve CO2 in the atmosphere and at the point every person on earth will want a green car.
- Tomis02 3y agoThere's physically not enough room. It's not a matter of technology.
- chrisco255 3y agoYes, it really does. Traffic engineering is an entire field of civil engineering. This has been studied for over a century, and the effect of widening highways and increasing speed limits can be simulated mathematically: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_engineering_(transportation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_engineering_(transport... [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191261508000180?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01912...