Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it’s still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we’re designing for cars/bikes/peds. We’re not. We’re designing for people, whether they’re in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it’s very much not zero-sum.
It’s only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you’ll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
As usual, concern trolling about fire response and the conservative firefighters themselves standing in the way of making places for people.
No, 2022:
Here’s McConnell saying to ignore it:
Here’s the feds being cowards:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/24/transportation-department-highways-states-00084332
I think they tried to do that and Mitch McConnell told red states to ignore those rules and then the feds cowardly backed off.
Some of the blame lies at the feet of state DOTs that are still drawing up these projects. In Austin’s case, I think the I-35 widening is basically being forced down the city’s throat by a revanchist state government.
The largest grant is going to Portland for a freeway widening that has occasionally included a cap in the renders.
Austin’s grant is going to a similar project.
The freeway widenings apparently must continue, but now they’ll just come with caps in progressive cities.
He will sink it anyway. Not like Tories care about evidence-based policy anyway.
There’s a website/app I really like using called Rome2Rio that gives you lots of options for getting from point A to point B. If there’s a car-free way to do it, it’ll typically show you.
If Richard Nixon had nationalized the infrastructure nationwide instead of just the passenger operations…
If Reagan hadn’t re-privatized ConRail…
Amtrak should just eminent domain the track, goddamit.
In my dreams, the NEC becomes the Eastern Seaboard Corridor and runs from Portland, Maine to Miami, Florida.
Hopefully electrification just keeps inching south to Richmond, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, …
It is kinda nice to see Amtrak swing for the fences, but there are so many huge gains that could be made on the Cascades with smaller investments. Stuff like the Point Defiance bypass.
Also in Wisconsin
There was a plan for actual HSR in Florida using the same ROW as Brightline. It was torpedoed by former governor and current senator Rick Scott. They sent money back to the Obama administration both because they didn’t want the Democrats to get a win and also because of their privatization/kickback fetish.
Love giving public money to private infrastructure.
LA to Vegas is the busiest flight corridor in the US.
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.