I promise you the number of people living in that city in 1970 is considerably fewer than the number of people there now. Of course you need to continue expanding infrastructure.
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That is correct, but highways are not the infrastructure you should worry about upgrading first!
“What if we put lanes on top of the other lanes?”
There is some in the California SFO bay area.
For a brief moment, you feel like you are driving\flying in the Jetsons future.
I wonder if a picture like this could be used to fool future archeologists (or paleontologists or historic internetologists, or whichever would be studying it) into thinking we put great effort into segregating people with white lights and scum with red lights from using the same roads.
That's definitely fixed my friend.
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LA? 5? 405?
Seattle, Washington is a pretty big place. Right? There are more people in Los Angeles county than all of Washington State. It's absolutely insane the number of people who move from affordable areas around L.A. into the city and back every day.
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People will talk about induced demand and all that. But those people really just want to be able to get around. The fact that they just don't because the traffic is so bad doesn't mean you shouldn't add more lanes. It means you should add a lot more. Same with the one lane at a time approach. The fact that it didn't work does mean you are doing something wrong, but it maybe that you need to add 5 lanes at a time, not one.
Now I'm not saying they should actually do that, just that the arguments against are BS.
A comprehensive public transit system, well maintained and well patrolled is what LA really needs. I am talking Paris metro on steroids. And it is going to cost in the trillions. But it isn't getting any cheaper by waiting.
People on here love to shit on Houston's massive expansion of I-10 as a failure.
It worked great for years, but the population continued to grow. Having 5 fewer lanes on each side would just make things worse or increase sprawl by pushing people further out to thin the traffic. They ain't gonna mass-adopt bicycles in a city where the heat index is 115° + for months at a time
And the widest parts of I-10 are not the everyday choke points. Other parts of the system are the worst offenders on traffic.
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trouble is more lanes are useless if so many people are lane hogs.
Too many times have i been stuck behind someone doing 60 in an overtaking lane with with nothing in the slow lane
People aren't hitting 60 in LA during rush hour...
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