The sad #paradox of #transportation #planning is how we can spend 54 years planning and building #highways based on half-century-old mistakes but implementing modern day #bestpractices like dedicated #pedestrian signals and #protectedbikelanes is too complicated and costs too much money
The next saddest paradox: we can plan a highway for 54 years but not think about what that highway might do to land use and travel patterns in year 55.
And then we sing our own praises, claiming with dead certainty but zero evidence that these 50 year old mistakes are, in fact, absolute triumphs that will do the exact opposite of what decades of research says they will do.
@DrTCombs
Yes! We should all be asking our DOTs why the time of drivers is automatically more valuable than the time of everyone outside of cars.
@DrTCombs
It sure seems like this is a violation of the equal protection clause.
To be fair this new section of #highway will likely shave a few minutes off my drive to visit family elsewhere in the state. But that's not a trip that should be privileged over local #mobility! Yet that's what we do, time and again. We privilege long distance travel over day to day efforts of folk just trying to get around town without dying. And we build roads encouraging more long distance #travel, #landuse, economic, and #climate consequences be damned