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From an urban planning perspective, what's the worst designed aspect of your city? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personally it's crossing the freeway where I live. My city has about 100,000 people but only six roads cross the freeway, with three more wayyy on the outskirts that are basically detours. There are also only a few pedestrian bridges that cross it, and zero pedestrian tunnels. The way our freeway works is it goes around downtown with the ocean to the south and west, so people live on the outside of the freeway and then commute inwards. This means insane bottlenecks with miles of cars in both directions trying to get to the other side. It doesn't help that our four freeway entrances are also at some of these tunnels / bridges, which means people who need to get on or off the freeway are also present. In general it's a shitshow and I'd really like to see a few more bypasses to prevent this congestion in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Population of 100k and miles of cars? That really sounds like me playing City Skylines.

I have different complains about my city (in Europe) but one I think is easiest to solve is public transportation.

Everyone is cheering "we need metro" and we do, but metro takes time. I think we can use existing infrastructure and make it better.

More buses, more trams, free public trasport financed from sold gas, much more yellow lanes for buses, more and better buses and trams. More bike lanes. I think that's the only thing that can help us solve our traffic problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Population of 100k and miles of cars? That really sounds like me playing City Skylines.

I know right? It's terribly annoying at rush hours, especially around noon and around 5 pm. The worst part is you can't even take our otherwise pretty remarkable bus system since they also have to use those few roads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Similar like my city, but this is with two million people.

Buses need to have reserved line.