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Philip
@Philip_DT
when American traffic engineers learn to limit themselves to two lanes and no shoulders they can have 1 urban highway as a treat.
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Alexander Lacherbauer
@lacherbauer
Urbanists: “Highways ruin cities. Tear down the freeways.” Also Urbanists: “UwU I love Tokyo.” Tokyo: 200 miles of elevated highways.
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Philip
@Philip_DT
This got popular and I'm going to mute notifications now, I just want to throw up two examples from my city which were built during the last military dictatorship, one is bad the other is worse. L: Sunk, shoulders, urban grid destroyed R: Elevated, no shoulders, grid maintained
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Philip
@Philip_DT
You have a choice you can use that lane for emergency or for regular traffic. What you don’t get is to make the highway wider.
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Philip
@Philip_DT
People don’t know what they want, but most agree they don’t like what theyve gotten from urban design.
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ladyjustice
@ladyjustice4lif
It’s just pathetic people who grew up with no money no willingness to get a job and couldn’t afford a car in the freedom of mobility so then they move to a city and they start singing how amazing it is to not have what they couldn’t afford before
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Rishi Ramaraju
@RishiRamaraju
They didn’t limit themselves, the urban environment did. If they had the space that we do, I bet you their freeways would look a lot closer to ours. China basically proves this:
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__abba__
@__abba__
Tokyo’s highways are far closer together than American highways. They have more lanes in total.
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v63
@v63sfx
Playing your fantasy sim-city type games on this platform.
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matt
@brons_matt
We have excellent driving infrastructure in tokyo American urbanists are just braindead and think we need to make something bad to make something else good
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