Anonymous
10/31/2025, 7:05:45 AM
No.2057514
>>2057488
>cities are for people to live in, not for highways to cross through
Highways are infrastructure, it's used to get around and transport goods and services. There's no prize in seeing who can cram the most warm bodies into a 1km*1km space.
>why would you waste away the most valuable, densely populated land of the city for a highway?
One of the reasons why downtown land is so valuable is that it is easily accessible. I don't buy the "wasting valuable real estate space" argument because especially in Europe railways go straight through the middle of the city (and are as wide as freeways anyway), and still contribute to the center of town being highly valuable land-wise. Frankly the land value argument doesn't really work because what usually ends up happening is the land becomes so valuable literally nothing but a skyscraper is worth building on it, so it just stays a parking lot.
>you use the outskirts and build a ring or something of the likes
The outskirts are going to be a moving target anyway.
>so that you can travel to opposite sides of the city actually faster by surrounding it with light traffic at a normal high way speed rather than driving through the center in dense traffic in a "highway" thats completelly filled with slow cars
The inside highway is usually for commuters and local traffic. One of the reasons why the inner highways are so slow is lots of people entering and exiting, and even then that only happens during peak hours.
>cities are for people to live in, not for highways to cross through
Highways are infrastructure, it's used to get around and transport goods and services. There's no prize in seeing who can cram the most warm bodies into a 1km*1km space.
>why would you waste away the most valuable, densely populated land of the city for a highway?
One of the reasons why downtown land is so valuable is that it is easily accessible. I don't buy the "wasting valuable real estate space" argument because especially in Europe railways go straight through the middle of the city (and are as wide as freeways anyway), and still contribute to the center of town being highly valuable land-wise. Frankly the land value argument doesn't really work because what usually ends up happening is the land becomes so valuable literally nothing but a skyscraper is worth building on it, so it just stays a parking lot.
>you use the outskirts and build a ring or something of the likes
The outskirts are going to be a moving target anyway.
>so that you can travel to opposite sides of the city actually faster by surrounding it with light traffic at a normal high way speed rather than driving through the center in dense traffic in a "highway" thats completelly filled with slow cars
The inside highway is usually for commuters and local traffic. One of the reasons why the inner highways are so slow is lots of people entering and exiting, and even then that only happens during peak hours.