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I was being ironic.
Totally missed that tone. My bad, sorry.
le sigh though
Text isn't always the best medium to convey irony/sarcasm.
Anything but a fucking train...
Coincidentally they form train-like structure, without all the benefits.
Soooo like for profit health insurance? Murica
And quintuple the emissions
Yup. Trains are stupidly efficient.
I know. They should add more lanes.
/s
I hate cars and highways so much.
I wish we had good mass transit like Europe.
Everyone always disparages the cost of public transport but how much does it cost to maintain these highways every year? A few dozen/hundred billion dollars across the country?
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One more lane, bro
Just one more and it'll all be fixed, trust me bro
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Everybody in this photo could fit in like 4 buses
See, this is what AI was actually made for. 14 buses.
Always remember LLMs are trained to sound correct to the human mind, not be correct.
^ This guy is an LLM. Take everything he says with a grain of salt
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All of that, for a traffic jam. Imagine turning 4 lanes in a train track carrying 500 person every 5 min in both directions and one lane in a bike lane. It's still 20 lanes for car, but you suddenly have decent public transport which would be safer and faster than that gigantic traffic jam
Or just a decent bus system. You could replace 50 cars on that highway with a single bus.
It's always first and last leg in Texas that kills this stuff.
The only affordable housing is far enough outside the city that you basically have to own a car because there's not enough density to have bus stops.
And going to a park park and ride following by waiting on the bus adds another 30-40 minutes to the commute and gets your car broken into 3 times a year, so nobody uses them.
The real solution is to mandate allowing remote work for positions where it is a viable option.
I commute 4 hours a day for a job where I log into a computer and do all my work online. If people like me were allowed to work remote we'd have more time with our families, traffic would be reduced, and housing closer the city would get cheaper for those who DO need to work in-person.
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shit could have been 1 long passenger and 1/10th of a freight train
And was we can all observe, it has solved traffic for Houston due to accommodating all the cars possible by upgrading with enough lanes perpetually.
It is expected to be complete once the lanes exceed N+1 or the population drops below N.
Am I the only one not seeing 26 landed here?
I think this is a picture before the most recent expansion. (They saw this picture and said "hmm not wide enough, too congested.")
In the normal parts:
- 2 express/toll/HOV/carpool lanes
- 5 regular highway lanes
- 3 feeder lanes (in Texas, the highways tend to have "feeders" or "service roads" or "frontage roads" that run parallel to highways so that people can exit and enter, turn onto intersecting roads, and access local businesses, and Houston calls them "feeders").
That's 10 in each direction. But at any given time there might be merge lanes between the express and the regular lanes, between the highway and the feeder, or between the feeder and a turn lane. So at the widest point, around the major freeway intersection with another huge toll highway, they bump it up to one more of each type of lane, for 13 lanes in each direction.
There's also a fair debate about whether the feeder lanes should count. After all, they have traffic lights and intersections to deal with. But on the other hand, driving on them is necessary to get on and off the highway lanes, so in a sense it's part of the same highway.
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From the picture, I count 16 lanes. Is the pic accurate?
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Counting the service road is kind of cheating. In built up areas in Texas they're de facto city streets that happen to exactly mirror the freeway. They have intersections, lights, businesses, etc.
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Fwiw, feeder lanes probably shouldn't be counted in Texas because they're basically glorified city streets. Businesses can have entrances and exits on frontage roads, so there's not really anything special about them except that they have a slightly higher speed limit (50~60mph vs 40~45mph) and they have immediate access to the highway.
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