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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoYou speak as if highways don’t also need to seize property and destroy shit in the way to be built.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoWe build relatively few new highways, they’re generally lane addition projects. Baltimore has added 2-3 lanes N,S and Beltway without taking any additional land beyond the stuff done in the early 1900’s. They’ve been trying to put a maglev in between DC and NYC for decades https://www.thebanner.com/community/transportation/northeast-maglev-high-speed-train-canceled-DDIKXTC5SZDM7IIGS2SPLEKDKQ/ It’s not like we’re not trying.
minus-squarearchitect@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·5 days agoThey seize it from poor people, is that what you want but on a massive fucking level?
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agopoor people don’t tend to fight, but trains can’t easily avoid the not broke areas because of the whole “Can’t make sharp turns” thing.
You speak as if highways don’t also need to seize property and destroy shit in the way to be built.
We build relatively few new highways, they’re generally lane addition projects. Baltimore has added 2-3 lanes N,S and Beltway without taking any additional land beyond the stuff done in the early 1900’s.
They’ve been trying to put a maglev in between DC and NYC for decades https://www.thebanner.com/community/transportation/northeast-maglev-high-speed-train-canceled-DDIKXTC5SZDM7IIGS2SPLEKDKQ/
It’s not like we’re not trying.
They seize it from poor people, is that what you want but on a massive fucking level?
poor people don’t tend to fight, but trains can’t easily avoid the not broke areas because of the whole “Can’t make sharp turns” thing.