Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it’s only going to get worse year by year.
Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html
With varying degrees of regret. Some cities named to keep the right of ways, so rebuilding is more reasonable, others gave/sold it off and now they’re double plus fucked.
Most of the pre-1950’s trams were private, and not city run. The cities that took them over and kept them running are looking really smart at this point.
My city is about as smart as a box of rocks.