Time to level that bunch of old hovels and finally build something sensible.
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Surprisingly enough, the infrastructure needed to support millions of people is a lot larger than the infrastructure needed to support a few tens of thousands.
The enormous Gare du Nord, Paris, for example (also population 0):
That looks alot smaller even with the buildings surrounding it.
also transports significantly more people than a single of the dozens of interchanges in Houston
This is comparing apples to oranges - Gare du Nord supports far, far more transportation than the highway interchange does.
You sure nobody's living under those ramps and overpasses?
I can confirm a population size of at least half a dozen. Drive under that spot regularly
7.8 million people in the Houston metro area, no shit the infrastructure is huge.
It's also one of the least walkable cities in America, which is saying something
I know, I live here.
Yes, but y'all have ungodly car infrastructure to accommodate for the lack of anything else. You make LA look like Europe
Expand that out to the greater Houston area to include everyone who drives to work every day and you have a highway system that needs to accommodate 10s of millions of people using it every day.
needs to accomodate
Wants to accomodate. Induced demand is a thing.
It also works in reverse: Slowly remove lanes and sooner or later it will somehow accomodate everyone that needs to use it. Either by making the inner city more dense or by businesses moving away and distributing more.
With this administration's time and dedication, you too can have 30,000 people living under an intersection.
Anything but metric
That's a Houston interchange? No frontage road, no uturn lanes, no separated speeding zone? Texas has worse.
The highway has more green space
America has so much land it can waste it. Italy needs it to live.
One is beautiful, been there, seen it, it's amazing
The other is a horrendous post apocalyptic wasteland. Never been there, never will.
I know that urban wasteland well. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a green space until I was already a them. XD
True but that intersection is probably connecting between Houston and Austin which supports ~3M