Toll roads are spreading in America : hackernews

[–] HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

US economy - Keeping poor people in their place.............

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

https://archive.is/ZvPtX

[+] sramder@lemmy.world -6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just one more lane bro, I swear. I just need one more lane and we'll solve traffic.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

https://youtu.be/xtO_rF-OQ7w

Sums it up pretty well. Utopia's such a good show.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 😉

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Friend, the only solution to traffic is fewer cars and better alternatives to driving.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Kinda my point… just trying not to be boring ;-)

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trains, trams, bike lanes walkable neighborhood, even busses. Anything but goddamn cars.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

And even better solution is to promote working for home. Less infrastructure overall.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 59 minutes ago

Do you know what logical fallacies are because your comment is one, reductio ad absurdum.

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