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[–] 106 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This legit happened to the entire US in the 50s and 60s, and has only sligjtly improved in the past 30 years

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, it's gotten worse over the past 30 years.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They’ve removed a lot of the in city highways atleast in the east coast

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Depends on where you are. It’s gotten much worse in Florida.

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    In TX not only have they added highway, but many new highways are Toll roads. Somehow the city councils get duped with a presentation that building another lane on the highway won't help, but building two in the name of a private company will.

    They don't even take care of the toll roads as well as the public roads either.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles of road in the largest 100 urbanized areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42 percent. That rate of freeway expansion significantly outstripped the 32 percent growth in population in those regions over the same time period. Yet this strategy has utterly failed to “solve” the problem at hand—delay is up in those urbanized areas by a staggering 144 percent.

    https://t4america.org/maps-tools/congestion-con/

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I didn't know Westminster was in Houston.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Dont forget bow much a car dependent society empowers automobile manufacturers.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Source? What year was this from?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Uhhh...as someone in the UK, I would probably rethink holding us to some beacon of transport perfection. Our rail system is heavily privatised, and costs so much that we regularly see stories of how it would cost less to fly to mainland Europe and then to London instead of getting the train from say Bristol.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    That's the future (neo) liberals want for our country. Wake up!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Grey punch-buggy, no punch-backs.

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