Fuck Cars

Come on bro just one more there’s just not enough room for people to pass bro merging makes things tough bro just one more lane please

95% of city planners quit before adding the final lane that fixes traffic

Why's there no one on the beach in the "problem" pic? Kinda seems like one was taken in the slow season and the other was taken in peak rush hour of the busy season.

Please don't say the F word around me; I need to sleep tonight :')

City Skylines is where i learned plentiful with so much fun. Soon City Skylines 2 will be released with even more enhancement/ improvements.

I’d love for my car to be the inconvenient option but we’re just miles and miles away from that. Sure I could take the metro, it’d cost me more and I’d still need the car to drive to the metro station. Add an hour or so to what any given journey would have taken by car, throw in a handful of sweaty, rude and aggressive co-travelers and you have the answer as to why I drive everywhere.

and the science gets done and you make a neat gun for the people who are

still alive

Anyone should intuitively understand this if they've watched people try to merge. More lanes, more god awful merging and bottlenecking at exits.

But I guess everyone forgets this intuitive wisdom when they start asking for more lanes.

I taught someone from Egypt how to drive here in the UK. She would absolutely attest to this 😂 She'd tell me that when she drove in Egypt it was a case of having faith in God getting you to your destination. She also said God must have gotten sick of driving for her so He provided her a good instructor 🥰

Edit: I also just realised where I'm posting! Being an instructor, I guess I'm the devil incarnate in this community 👀

If we're lucky, the highway will be underwater by then.

!remindMe 60 years.

Oh wait, no, we don’t that that here, do we.

Even if the same number of cars are on the road, it is likely that the bottleneck is somewhere else in the city, so adding 20 lanes won't help the issue anyway.

This like complaining the bathroom is clogged and your solution is to make the showerhead bigger.

The idea behind induced demand is the easier and more convenient/cheaper you make a method of transit the more people will use it. So if you make driving easier by building a super highway people will default to that whole if you build put a rail network that gets peole to where they need to go they'll take that. Transit being crowded in some ways is a good thing as it shows the route you've got is good but could prbsky do with a capacity upgrade. Of course roads being crowded is bad due to massive space inefficiencies and environmental issues.

If you're looking for a job and you see an opening but it's going to take you more than an hour each way to get to and from work, doesn't that make that job less desirable than jobs that are closer by?

Conversely if you're looking for a new place to live aren't you going to consider places that are closer to work to be more desirable?

Suddenly there's road expansion and a house that used to be 2 hours drive away is now 30 minutes drive from you. So you buy the house.

This would all work out great if you were the only one that thought this. But unfortunately there are many many more people that will also get a house or find a job that's further way, because it's only a 30 minutes drive now. So now more people are using the highway and that 10 lane highway is clogged, and that commute time starts going back up. But now you have a mortgage now and so you're stuck. Everyday in your car for more than an hour each way again.

Cars are simply an inefficient way to move a lot of people. A highway expansion only temporarily solves the problem, but when the highways work well, more people use it and those inefficiencies rear their ugly head again.

Here's an explainer for Induced Demand. You'll never guess by who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za56H2BGamQ

There are probably a couple mechanisms:

1. Reduced viability of hyper local services. People drive a longer distance to a central location more than the shorter distance.

2. Less self-optimization of work-home proximity. People are more likely willing to work further away.

Both can be argued as both a good and bad thing.

if they're overpopulated, shouldn't they focus on higher-capacity transportation options?

The right-side pic only shows one direction. There's a middle separator and another set of lanes in the other direction (not visible). I think this is the area: https://www.google.com/maps/@31.2207203,29.9301834,3a,75y,224.65h,97.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipMJJwta1iFu8TyB9UUb6xVX6fjj30Ph2Z0UGKs!2e10!7i5760!8i2880?entry=ttu feel free to look around, I'm not sure how up to date the photos are.

The whole comparison is stupid without time and date stamps. First looks like it's an early morning before most people are out and about. Third looks like there's an event at the beach. Second is strange, maybe the road was just completed or shut down or the cars were edited out.