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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Newsflash: increasing road capacities and accommodating cars has never, ever worked to relieve traffic, period.  Just look at the disasters that are around Texas cities and Los Angeles.  Guess what happens the more lanes and road capacity you add?  You end encouraging people to drive more and live further out, which ends up causing more congestion again.  How many times do we have to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again that ends up solving nothing?  It's insanity we keep dumping trillions of dollar into car infrastructure only to get more pedestrian deaths, worsening traffic, and deteriorating lifestyle.   Seoul is a famous example where they removed a massive thoroughfare through the city for cars, and guess what happened?  Traffic actually improved while the city was beautified because they turned a huge road in the city into a much better canal based walkway.

Enough with catering to the car industry.  US' car centric culture BLOWS, and it's also why Americans are so fat, out of shape, and healthcare is bankrupting the country.   Kill the car and driving culture.   US' urban planning based on the automobile is the worst, most disastrous decision this country has ever made.  [/quote]

Wow. Hyperbole.

But if that is the worst then we really do have it pretty good. Thank you. [/quote]

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