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Old Posted Sep 24, 2007, 2:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Lee_Haber8 View Post
Yeah we do need efficient movement of goods, but that's what the perimeter and railways are for. Building interchanges in the city will do little to make things more efficient; you'll just end up with a more inhospitable city and the roads will be just as clogged in a year or two. So you spent a ton of money and just made things worse.
Wouldn't they be "just as clogged" because there is more traffic using the same road? So even if what you claim will happen will in fact happen, the city is actually better off because more cars are able to travel, even if it is only at the same speed as before. If the post-construction clogging occurs because traffic increases from (say) 100 to 150 (arbitrary units of volume), then the result of the road-building program is that 150 can travel at a speed at which, before construction, only 100 could travel. So that's progress.
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