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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 105 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This legit happened to the entire US in the 50s and 60s, and has only sligjtly improved in the past 30 years

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, it's gotten worse over the past 30 years.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They’ve removed a lot of the in city highways atleast in the east coast

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Depends on where you are. It’s gotten much worse in Florida.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hasn't everything though?

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Considering Florida is literally a sinking state physically and politically, I wouldn't expect much

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Disc golf has gotten better there. And Wawa has opened some stores. That is about it.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Eh, my mom did the park and ride thing and took the train to work in Orlando for a few years before she retired. It's not enough, but a few cities are taking some steps in the right direction.

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles of road in the largest 100 urbanized areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42 percent. That rate of freeway expansion significantly outstripped the 32 percent growth in population in those regions over the same time period. Yet this strategy has utterly failed to “solve” the problem at hand—delay is up in those urbanized areas by a staggering 144 percent.

https://t4america.org/maps-tools/congestion-con/

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Probably just need that one last name added and it'll finally pan out.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

In TX not only have they added highway, but many new highways are Toll roads. Somehow the city councils get duped with a presentation that building another lane on the highway won't help, but building two in the name of a private company will.

They don't even take care of the toll roads as well as the public roads either.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

Robert Moses would have scoffed at that pic. You don't build onramps around the historical buildings, you tear the historical buildings down.

[–] Vittelius 7 points 3 months ago

The ad even falls it out directly

like Los Angeles