Looking for @mozz@mbin.grits.dev to help lay out how they will implement the changes for the policies or issues the voters want.
Looking for @mozz@mbin.grits.dev to help lay out how they will implement the changes for the policies or issues the voters want.
Build some damn trains! Our cities are sprawling car-infested shitholes compared to more modern city designs around the world.
A single freeway interchange costs as much as a big light rail network for a medium sized city. It would transformative to build some modern infrastructure for once.
Combine that with educating city councils on how zoning laws and architectural rules determine how a city’s space is used (usually very inefficiently and with ugly buildings). We’re making a sprawling, bland wasteland out of the beautiful American landscape by sheer ignorance and short sighted greed.
I think it was CityNerd whose video I recently watched where one of the points was too many local flights still in Acela corridor.
Acela is the closest US has to a high speed train and connects cities with huge populations, transit and the right distance for hsr. It’s hugely popular and has taken many flights out of the air and cars off the road, but it’s not enough. It’s still the most congested airspace in the US and there are 450 flights/day between major cities within the Acela service area. Current Acela levels of service are way below what people are demanding and it’s not enough. Nowhere near enough. Those 450 flights every day entirely within the Acela service area shouldn’t exist. We need train service good enough to start banning local flights