What evidence do you have that makes it wrong?
First its so contrary to both logic and common sense that it would require a massive amount of evidence to prove it right. Secondly I have the evidence of watching the population and number of cars grow while new road projects are canceled or scaled back and I see how the traffic gets worse. And I can see when new roads are built, or old ones expanded that the traffic situation is improved. The improvements might not continue tobe created fast enough to keep up with the growth of traffic, but if they improvements where not made traffic would have been even worse.
Now in the beginning, when there was just the Earth and the Garden of Eden, God said unto Moses, "Go forth and multiply". Oh sorry, wrong theory!
When the freeways were first discussed in the 40s, 50s and 60s their proposed rights of way were intended to go as far out as what was then considered country.
Fine go back to the 40s or 50s and argue then... Now most new highways or highway improvements are not built out in to the country but are instead an attempt to keep up with growth in the suburbs.
As soon as their rights of way were known, developers began to build apts., offices, and retail so that when the beltways opened, they too were met with almost full capacity.
The apartments and offices would have been built somewhere and many people don't want to live in the inner cities. If the beltways where not built things would have been even worse.
Frankly, you must know about what I speak........according to past posts, you drive the DC beltway everyday.
Every week maybe. I drive on Rt. 28 everyday. The Beltway's traffic is often bad but I can't imagine the area without it.
There is a lot of implementation of counterproductive laws because of the conflicting jurisdictions in a metro area.
Agreed.
In places like Mpls and Portland
They have their own problems.
Plus environmental laws are based on logic.
Many of them, like many other laws, are not. They are based on whatever becomes the hotbutton issue or on the give and take of politics. If they where more logical you could get a combination of less polution and less impact on businesses and individuals.
DC has some of the worst air in the country particularly in the summer. Logically, you would think people would not want to live there.
The air isn't like an old East German factory town. Its only really bad a few days a year and even then its not bad for most people unless you are out in it all day or are particuarly sensitive to it. Logically you wouldn't look at this one issue but would look at the jobs and the good schools and other benefits of the area.
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