Thread 213778842

How good is your country at urban planning?

>>213778842 (OP)
Only rivaled by The Netherlands'.

>>213778842 (OP)
We went on a urban highway building spree in the 60's and 70's but don't really do that much anymore. We probably couldn't even if we wanted to, any new urban highway would get NEPA'd

Most of our problems today with urban planning is over-regulation on land use.

>>213778842 (OP)
just one more lane bro

>>213778924
Do Brazilian cycle everywhere?

>>213779082
We swing from branch to branch.

>>213778842 (OP)
One more lane should fix this.

add more sand and make the beach bigger

>>213779142
Thats very enviromentally friendly of you. You may burn another 100000 ares of the Amanzonas

>>213778842 (OP)
We're only marginally better than Burgerclaps are.

It's quite grim.

>>213779273
Canada really is just discount America, isn't it?

>>213779421
Their fate as the 51st American state was sealed in 1783

>>213779265
Prost!

>>213778956
>>213779157
Unironically, what is wrong with building more lanes to relieve congestion
>induced demand
Eventually everyone will have room unless new residents magically appear from nowhere

>Start with maybe a dozen people
>End with 1000
What's the problem here? Walkability achieved!

>>213778842 (OP)
>How good is your country at urban planning?
it is dog shit. you should know.

>>213779142
kek

>>213780354
retard

>>213780354
the population of an economically healthy city continues to grow, so you will have to just build another lane in a few years, seizing another few dozen houses with eminent domain. roads effectively have a scaling limit with highly diminishing returns, especially if its an urban centre with regular intersections and exits

>>213780354
> Shit on the floor
> Flies appear around the shit
> "There are too many flies clustered here. I'll shit on the floor again nearby so the flies spread out"
> Mfw more flies appear

>>213780354
traffic is caused by the choke points. You can’t build six lanes at every single exit because there simply isn’t enough space, and you need to account for the exits interfacing with street traffic (stoplights/signs/rotaries)

>>213780703
>germany
>bad urban planning
What? There's nothing more complimented than German engineering, and especially its urban planning. Were they lying?

>>213780354
induced demand is a reddit brained phrase they throw out instead of thinking. nobody runs out to buy a car because there's less traffic. more lanes doesnt necessarily help traffic thoughever, it will still be limited by the rest of the network and the interchanges/connections.

>>213780354
slowdown is almost exclusively caused by bottlenecks which only get worse with more lanes

Schleswig Holstein könnte auch mit auf das Bild

>>213783226
>induced demand is a reddit brained phrase
true, the bigger problem is not the induction of new traffic, but the bundling of traffic that is already there
even if the capacity of the city highway is enough, it will flood the subsequent road network

>>213778842 (OP)
garbage, apartment blocks next to houses and barely any space between them

>>213783226
I think its less than and more that highways encourage suburbs to be built even further away

>>213781986
We could be so much better

>>213780354
You can't have ten lanes of traffic everywhere, they have to converge at some point

>>213778842 (OP)
pretty good.
i mean they suck from my perspective as a driver but the city saying
>get fucked you cant drive here
is effective. cant get gongestion on a street closed for cars. obviously somali and boomer female bus drivers manage to do so anyway..

>>213778842 (OP)
Add more sand
Add more lanes

>>213780354
unironically, if op's pic related had 10 lanes, what difference would i make?

>>213779273
not exactly. many smaller canadian cities see higher rates of transit use and walkability than american cities 5x the size. but yeah compared to europe you seem american.