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[–] Hiro8811 7 points 5 months ago

Aren't there any hobos under there?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

You compare a city center with an interchange close to the city limit. You will see stuff like that in Europe too, especially motorways that separate cities from their sprawling neighbors. Houston has interchanges that look way more problematic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Build stack interchange only in cities skylines, not in real world

[–] EarWorm 6 points 5 months ago

The really fun bit is that the US doesn't need more room to house people. There are more vacant apartments than there are homeless people as is, but nobody can pay the rents.

[–] Chev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Comparing apples to pears. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How so? It's showing that with all that space the interchange is taking up you can house 30000+ people.

[–] Chev 0 points 5 months ago

There are enough highway interchanges in Italy too.

Not every ground that is suitable for streets, is also suitable for living.

The cost between those both are not comparable.

Usage of land is (at least in Italy) carefully determined to fulfill societies needs. Most people prefer to live somewhere, where infrastrcture already exists instead of building up a ghost town without anything nearby.