Re:Many Americans who live paycheck to paycheck blame debt
by clairity on Saturday July 20, 2019 @04:47PM
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> "...roads [are] different, because we will not see orders of magnitude improvement on road capacity, ever."
you don't need an orders of magnitude increase in capacity. doubling it is probably enough.
you can do that by putting roads underground, right under existing roads. it's expensive, but we have concentrated and idle wealth that could be unleashed on it. let rich people who really want less congestion pay for it. people in LA willingly pay $20+ for one single-occupancy trip in the toll lanes.
But the matter with roads is different, because we will not see orders of magnitude improvement on road capacity, ever. What we need is completely different solutions, but it would be great if people pushing for city mobility weren't pushing against the one form of mobility that actually works most of the time.