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Skylar Hawthorne

Updated Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 7:43 AM CDT

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invisiblemaniac

Sim City has proven that you can't reduce congestion by adding lanes. (Actual research shows this as well, but that's not as funny.)

drousnavat

I wish greed did not rule the world.

TheForbiddenSemicolon

Imagine going to the beach on the left as a kid once and having a great time. You take your kids to it because you haven’t been in 15yrs and it looks like the right.

stercusmoriturussum

This was realized as early as the 1970s. Which means it made it into universities (and other trainings) for traffic planners in the 90s. And it will take until those traffic planners who learned their trade in the 90s have died out until we can hope for improvement. If this is actually a result of conscious planning and not of corruption - who benefits from building these highways?

StubbornViking

I mean, look at the number of people on the beach. Picture 2 absolutely did NOT cause picture number 3 lmao, there are WAYYYYYY more people just hanging around in 3 than there are in 1. I highly doubt 1 was taken at the same time of year as 3; likely well out of tourist season. I agree with OP’s message for the most part (I just want walkable cities with public transport ffs) but this is an intentionally misleading and unhelpful post.

ldstrike

You know what gives me hope? How much e-bikes have caught on with the younger generation in my area since cars are so expensive.

BobAllen2004

Traffic management is complicated and usually not as as simple as "add another lane", but at the same time, it's never completely true to believe "just adding a lane never helps alleviate traffic."

ArmedandOverclocked

So i am not going to discount this, but simply replacing roads with mass transit wont work either. Specifically you need to change city zoning to maxize the effectiveness of mass transit. I.E instead of having "park and ride" parking garages next to train station, have actual residential buildings, ideally with some commercial mixed in to promote foot traffic. I mention this because a lot of mass transit plans in the USA ignore this vital step and wonder why its not as effective,

CaptainGrundle

Just turn the excess people into Soylent Green

ttwshowtime

SimCity told me in 1992 that this wouldn’t work.