>>509430801I'm saying the state/county should buy the larger ROW if they truly need more ROW for utilities, before the road is even built. When expanding the road, yeah it would be easier to just have people's yards up for grabs, but it also disincentivizes the following:
>Oh, traffic on this road is bad. We should upzone the downstream part of the network and add public transit.instead, it's
>Oh, traffic on this road is bad. Let's turn it into a highway.>>509430951Sorry they took your land, unironically.
>>509431216Sounds like they only did it to make traffic safer, which is definitely good. I thought you meant they added a lane or something, which to me would be egregious. Did they add a middle/yellow striped lane along the whole road? That would also be pretty damn egregious on a rural road
>>509431112>it's basic economicsAssume you have a dumping of houses due to mass deportations. House prices go down, right? Well that causes contractors to stop building as much - combined with a now higher cost to build, due to less cheap labor, many contractors will retire or simply go out of business. Once the dumped houses are filled with Americans, and it's time to build again, guess who's hard to find? Builders. Especially cheap ones.
AGAIN, not saying it shouldn't happen. But you're acting like a welfare queen asking for stimulus and not looking at the long term consequences of it.