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You know what would fix traffic for everyone and probably save the planet? WFH for anyone who can.
That would help, but wouldn't do much for the mountains of people in cars on the weekend... going to stores they could easily walk to.
Personal driving needs to be one of those things that you might do a few times a month, when necessary, to get to a destination further than 25 km away.
The only vehicles you should regularly see on roads are delivery, emergency services, transport trucks, and maintenance vehicles.
Anything else can be handled by public transportation, micromobility, walking, bikes, zoom calls, etc.
Yes, it's not easy for everyone to do that, which is why government should step the hell up and subsidize and incentivize the crap out of every mode of transportation that isn't a car. Give away free e-bikes to every family if you need to, just get people out of cars!
Depends on where you live, food deserts are pretty common nowadays because it’s just assumed you can drive to the dtore
Exactly why we need to deconstruct car infrastructure and promote 15 minute cities.
Food deserts are also, in part, due to systemic racism and the lack of incentive to invest in impoverished areas.
Last week, on two different days, I drove one hour each way for my boss to tell me that the meeting room is full so just go home and he'll email out the meeting minutes after.
Mind you, I knew how many people were going, and I messaged him the night before, twice, that I should probably skip out so our guests don't feel too packed together, and he never answered.
Killing the environment because people suck. I hope he felt like a big man.
The highways are fine. The problem is that there's cars on them.
Just block off 4 lanes to be bus-only and 2 lanes to be bicycle only. Maybe a few more for train tracks.
Colorado's recent progress gives me hope for it actually rivaling the best places in Europe. Could it be.. a good state?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Colorado’s governor and other dignitaries, including the chief engineer of the state highway department, acknowledged the moment by posing for a photo standing on bulldozer tracks, next to the trench that would become Interstate 25.
In recent years, activists in Houston, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., have fought widenings, arguing that the increased exhaust would worsen air pollution and exacerbate high rates of asthma in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
Back then, an economist rebutted the prevailing assumption that adding lanes would fix traffic, showing instead that wider roads only increased the number of cars and made congestion worse.
“The scale of the challenge to getting a net-zero transportation system is, I think, much bigger than folks want to acknowledge,” said Costa Samaras, the director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University.
The widening was also unlikely to fix traffic: Years earlier, the agency had spent $800 million to expand another stretch of Interstate 25 in south Denver and ended up with worse congestion than before construction began.
In 1958, the year that Interstate 25 opened to traffic, the State Highway Department constructed the sweeping interchange connecting Federal Boulevard to Colfax Avenue and demolished more than 240 homes and businesses in the process.
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Lanes weren't even the right thing to build. Exits reduce congestion. Rarely is a whole city just jammed full of cars on every street. The issue is distribution, and if people are doing 1 mph in a 70 zone, they'll happily slide out to where the speed limit is 35.
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
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