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Not a nightmare at all - simply add more roads or more lanes on major highways where there are backups. People have a right to travel the way they want, and pa
by Vaslo 2y ago
Not a nightmare at all - simply add more roads or more lanes on major highways where there are backups.
People have a right to travel the way they want, and pay tax money to do so.
- acdha 2y agoPeople do not pay taxes anywhere near the level needed to maintain the existing roads, much less expand them. They also do not pay enough for the health costs their driving inflicts on the people whose neighborhoods they drive through, nor the cost of the climate change we’re all living through. Similarly, while most countries have free movement that does not guarantee availability of space to put those extra lanes - your freedom to drive ends where other people’s property begins.
- Vaslo 2y agoGovernments can buy property. There are lots of things that can be cut by government to get more roads - all that public assistance that goes to a small portion of people can be re-examined and reapportioned to help all people via roads rather than a large portion of them who are leeches. Climate change isn’t some doomsday. Relax about it, I promise you that you and billions of others will be fine. Many of us are tired of living our lives for the Doomsday Climate Cult.
- acdha 2y agoLeeches? That’s quite a loaded term, especially when you are asking the government to subsidize your lifestyle.
- presentation 2y agoInduced demand is a thing, build more roads get more traffic. Roads are physically incapable of scaling to demand.
- Vaslo 2y agoImagine not building something because there will be more demand. I don’t care if they never scale to 100% demand, every additional mile of lane helps.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoIf you paved the entire surface area of the country and it was still jammed with traffic, would you still believe that philosophy? What you want is a train.
- abenga 2y agoOoh yeah. One more lane will fix it. One more lane, one more road, and all your traffic woes will end.
- Vaslo 2y agoEvery mile will help. We can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Traffic woes may never end, but they can certainly be alleviated.
- abenga 2y agoSeems to me that all this capacity being added hasn't reduced traffic to any meaningful degree. It may be time to try reducing the cars on the road by providing alternative means of getting around instead.
- digging 2y ago> Traffic woes may never end, but they can certainly be alleviated. And the way to do that is to give people alternatives to driving.
- piperswe 2y agoWhen have traffic woes ever been alleviated by adding more lanes?
- pixl97 2y agoheh, you are the subject of this meme video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCzCJzwrB_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCzCJzwrB_c
- rjmunro 2y agoEvery mile means more people can decide to live further away from their workplace, or that they can physically attend meetings further away more easily rather than do a video call. It means more people go by car rather than by train or bus. It causes more traffic and more pollution, it doesn't reduce it.
- digging 2y ago> People have a right to travel the way they want, and pay tax money to do so. ...as long as they only want to travel by car.
- Reubachi 2y agoI almost can't believe an adult individual in 2024 has this opinion. decades of peer reviewed, real world verifiable evidence against your recommendation exists, and every single municipality responsible for maintaining roads the world over now plans for this actuality. Can yu provide a single example of expanding lanes on a public thoroughfare reduced congestion? SEE: LA, Baltimore, etc.