• can@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Worst part is that was already done* to build the highways (and on traditionally black neighbourhoods to boot).

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, but there’s already a freeway here.

      For everyone downvoting me, I have nothing against high speed rail. I would love to have that as an option, but my city is literally never going to build one.

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        3 months ago

        Brightline has a solution for their planned LA to Vegas route. 96% of their planned high speed rail is in the I-15 highway median. (Source: https://www.brightlinewest.com/overview/project)

        Yes, I know that won’t work everywhere and there isn’t always a highway median. I’m just pointing this out as one situation in which someone does have a (planned) solution to the problem of a highway already being there.

        Also, we expand highways on a regular basis in the United States, and that often means demolishing things next to them. Perhaps there are alternative uses for that space?