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Traffic Engineering In a Nutshell
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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At first we made as direct as possible routes for walking and riding.
Then we invented trains and bikes but the trains had to take very squiggly routes because it was difficult to make direct routes for them.
After 1900 riding ceased being relevant for most people, and cars started becoming a thing but they were distrusted and had to obey strict speed limits and give way to everything else.
And these days the only thing that matters is cars, cars literally get things bulldozed so they can go in a straight line, while everything else gets to eat shit and die and trains were replaced en-masse with shitty buses.
Though it should be noted that bikes were invented quite a while after trains.