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Just one more lane (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Already too late to fix the problems with roads

Given hindsight, you'd install covered cycling infrastructure (to protect from sun) and air conditioned commuter rail, not design the roads to have higher capacity, but not only that but it's also less disruptive to retrofit those than higher capacity roads as you can dig underground without needing large junctions to get people to the surface and convert road lanes to cycle lanes with a roof and wall on one side protecting you from traffic, fumes and the sun... It's a political and cultural issue rather than a design issue.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt 1 points 6 months ago

I think you would still need some substantial space to move things underground. But maybe they have enough. I don't really know. That said, yeah politics. So it ain't going to happen.