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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (6 children)

But, and hear me out, bro, what if we added just one more lane?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Under the original lane for 100x the cost?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Don't worry bro it'll only take 15 years for a 10km stretch and cost double what we estimated

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Build one lane for each person.

have a nice cakeday

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Oh fuck it is! Hooray for Reddit dying!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Each possible origin needs a road to each possible destination. No intersections, no traffic, problem solved!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Happy Cakeday! πŸ°πŸŽ‚

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Happy cake day! And that's a brilliant idea

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By the time anyone realizes a lane is needed you need 5 times as many lanes as you have to allow safe seperation between cars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If at any point you need 5 additonal lanes, you don't need lanes, you need different infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It isn't 5 more lanes it is 5 times. So a exurb two lane freeway starting to become crowded needs to expand to ten lanes just for safety.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

They missed the easiest, cheapest and most effective solution: working from home. We wouldn't need half of what we've built already if we put an end to the commute for office workers. We might even make our Paris Accord targets that way too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm guessing that's the 401? I know someone who used to commute on that and it sounded like fucking hell. Hours every day, in the car, driving, snacking, listening to the radio. You leave work and just get on a road in your car for hours.

People talk shit about paying a lot of money for tiny places in the city but I'd rather live in a box than commute 3-4 hours a day for 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If you commute that much you're living in a box either way

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I like how menacing this headline is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You want to end grid lock?

Quadruple public transportation, remove half the car lanes, remove half the parking places, put bicycle lanes everywhere.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Great in the winter. Lots of bike usage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So long as the roads are plowed, winter cycling is pretty easy. I bike all year round in toronto, and just the exercise keeps me warm enough that I'm out in a sweater until -10 or so, and any colder you can bundle up pretty effectively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yup i bike year round also and the worst part is drivers forcing me into the slush and plow furroughs, which would be solved by proper bike lanes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Eh, yeah. I cycled every winter and will do so again this winter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If conservatives had their way, they'd pay their corporate buddies to pave all of southern Ontario south of North Bay and turn it into one giant parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

We will never end gridlock, never.

It would be nice to have transportation alternatives, however.