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Originally Posted by Crawford
Bigger vehicles require more space. The U.S. has gigantic lanes and everything overengineered. TX takes it up a level with enormous freeways with huge parallel retail arterials. And most places stopped building freeways decades ago; it appears TX never stopped.
Yeah, a 30 lane freeway is more "efficient" than a six lane freeway, but is horrible planning. Efficiency shouldn't drive public policy.
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You never been to Texas have you? Should we halt all freeway (re)construction and just hope Houstonians eventually warm up to mass transit or are you going to invest where the demand is right now and in the near future?
And no, bigger vehicles doesn't mean bigger freeways. lol We could all be driving Honda Fits and the expansions would still be necessary. Texas cities are growing fast and decades old infrastructure meant for areas a fraction of their sizes are maxed out. See Austin.