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.