It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.
It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.
The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.
Germany has entered the chat.
Remote working is the solution to gridlock. Shit, it's the solution to expensive housing as well.
These jams aren't just people driving because they enjoy it. They're going somewhere. They're all going to the same places at the same times.
Take away the need for them to do that, and it goes away.
But noooo, billionaires made slightly less money. So fuck the planet I guess.
we have 1 in office day a week. Everyone agrees it is the least productive day.
I sort of not really agree. I think the problem is bigger. We make cities where housing and jobs are placed very far from each other. That leads to freeways. We need to accept the views, noise, and smells of industry. If we established safety standards that were enforceable, then we could do that.
Where does your breakfast cereal, sugar etc come from? Oh a factory in China. But what if you lived next to a sugar mill? Or walking distance from such a thing? You could work there! But you also would have to live with the fact that your kids would want to go to school nearby and they would have to walk next to huge trucks carrying material to and from the factory.
The moment you separate the factory or farm from the places we live in. That's when things go bad. You then need modes of transportation on a daily basis.
Back before everyone had cars, we had company towns. Places like Cromford only exist because Richard Arkright needed somewhere to put his workforce. And while I'm not convinced that the solution lies in corporations owning entire towns, they could at least put on a bus to the local towns and suburbs to deter people from having to drive.
But how many people are really going into major US cities to make things with their hands? At least half of all work in developed countries is office work. And apparently everyone thinks it's perfectly normal to take 2-3 tons of your own personal metal with them every day, at least an hour each way.
Why does this article go on and on about dams? lol
For the moment, Big Highway feels every bit as powerful—in red states as well as blue—as Big Dam was in its heyday. But two generations ago, we broke our addiction to dams. The same could happen with our ever-widening highways.
Using the historical evidence that brought down another infrastructure giant as a roadmap on how to stop big highway.
ever-widening highways
I want to add that not only are the # of lanes increasing, but the size of each lane is also increasing. Every street my city remakes goes from 10ft lanes to 12 to 14ft lanes, sometimes with giant dead lanes in the middle or on the side. One of the stroads I used to cross on foot went from 50ft wide to 100ft wide. It is sincerely, deeply unhinged how we are destroying our cities with asphalt and concrete
No i got that part, it just seemed like it went on and on. lol
Because it was the same problem, just a different infrastructure.