46
First contract for widening I-70 approved by Missouri highways commission
(missouriindependent.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
46 points (94.2% liked)
Fuck Cars
9669 readers
31 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Adding more lanes means you invite more traffic on the roads, which means you'll eventually have more traffic on it and have the same problem later.
But to make the problem worse, now you'll have to maintain all those extra roads, sucking future money from future projects.
Or, you could build up non-car transportation infrastructure, which would be more efficient at moving people and freight, and relieve some usage, wear, and tear on the highways.
If you love your car, encourage using tax money to be spent on public transportation.
How do politicians justify adding lanes when it is basically common knowledge that all it does is make congestion worse? I'm assuming it's mostly a "look we are doing something!"