• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Maybe they shouldn’t have cancelled the high speed rail project, or done anything at all for public transit instead of adding one more lane to I-35

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      5 months ago

      one more lane bro i swear just one more lane bro its gonna solve traffic just one more lane and its all good bro just one more lane please bro one more lane we got it this time bro just one more lane bro

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      5 months ago

      God damnit I hate it. There is so much research and so many model case studies of cities with public transportation they could draw influence from. The current double decker I-35 design is one of the worst I’ve ever experienced, but it’s because it was designed in the 60s so I can’t fault the engineers much. If there were 30% less traffic a lot of the issues would be fixed with infra upgrades imo

      The city passed Project Connect, a light rail and public transportation project. It’s estimated to be $7.1 billion but was scaled down because of “increased building costs” and this I-35 expansion project is $7.7 billion. If you look at the map for Project Connect, it’s a little underserved especially in the higher density parts of the city. At least they didn’t run one in westlake lol

      Imagine what they could have done with this with $15 billion

      It almost makes me wish I lived there 15 years from now, but luckily the fascists will take over by then and funnel all the public money to the oligarchs so we don’t have to worry about it :)