US economy - Keeping poor people in their place.............
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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It's often poor people pushing for this. They don't want their taxes to go up so they pay extra to save on taxes.
At least where I live people don't want to pay taxes for infrastructure so the city uses the toll method. I think it's some Brazilian company that runs a couple near me.
We got them in the bay area a few years ago. Such fucking bullshit.
Build the extra 3 lanes needed to relieve congestion… or maybe a dedicated EV lane!
Presumably Teslas were designed to work with dark gray on black safety lines.
Just one more lane bro, I swear. I just need one more lane and we'll solve traffic.
By the time anyone is asking for one more lane you need seven times as many lanes as they have. People will ignorantly drives closer than the 3 seconds following distance safety requires. Little Des moines needs Houstin levels, while Houstin needs ten levels of bridges. I can offer no help paying for that.
I mean… I had written something about 5 extra lanes… then I got stuck wondering if that was per-side, and decided to solve my mental conundrum with an Elon Musk joke…
It’s cool though, we can put a 5 lane elevated bikeway in the middle… that’ll fix it 😉
Friend, the only solution to traffic is fewer cars and better alternatives to driving.
Kinda my point… just trying not to be boring ;-)
But I mean, congestion usually has a place where it begins, adding more lanes behind it makes 0 sense. Or perhaps removing lanes would make more sense, as then cars wouldn't have to merge in such big numbers.
In reality, the answer is trains. Tracks everywhere, and very frequent runs.
Trains, trams, bike lanes walkable neighborhood, even busses. Anything but goddamn cars.
And even better solution is to promote working for home. Less infrastructure overall.
i refuse to have surgery at my surgeons house - and even if I would agree that forces a dozen people to live together even though all they have in common is a job.