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>6 + 2 lane arterial road running cars into city centre
>build during car-boom era, reminiscent of urban highways
>city is slowly limiting car access in city centre
>city is also in slow process of removing highways that feed into the centre
>there are two highways feeding to this arterial
>one of these (HW2) is already severed in capacity as it turns to street-level road that runs through new housing developments
>(some) politicians push for plans to connect HW2 and the arterial with a tunnel
>this would go against the long-term goals
>traffic """models""" are fiddled with to show catastrophic congestion without the tunnel
>no one is willing to discuss congestion pricing though because "we don't have congestion"
>impact assesment report gets missunderstood and some politicians start to push the narrative that the tunnel is absolutely necessary for certain PT projects
>or that by promoting the tunnel you promote PT
>turns out its not necessary, you can just build dedicated ROW and the car congestion wont matter
>others are against the tunnel not only because of the price tag, but also as the long tunnel ramps limit pedestrian accessibility and go agains the "less cars in the city" goal
>no final decision on the tunnel (180 million €) yet, but when the street is resurfaced the northern tunnel entrance is dug out "just in case" and then buried in sand
>50 million € buried in sand

>arterial is thus bottlenecked on both ends, more severly in downtown end

>new plans to erect housing on the both sides of the said arterial
>new street plans are drawn
>road alignment is slighty changed
>all lanes are still there
>plans miss pedestrian access because of ((traffic flow))
>doesn't improve existing residents' access to waterfront

long webs of traffic engineering, where land value is 0 and only the flow matters, reach their tangles to all city planning affairs