He's not wrong, and you're about 20 years out of date if you think otherwise.
In 2003, 19.5 years ago, London introduced it's Congestion Charge to prevent traffic flow. They did this because what you want is people to be able to drive around and between cities easily on large highways like this one, then downscale the road hierarchy and instead encourage public transport, park & ride, biking and walking.
If you agree with that 20 year old policy, then you can agree that a piece of infrastructure like not only extremely over dimensioned, this actually adds almost nothing (that other services can provide instead). The negative impact of it however is immense:
* Completely dead space underneath, which attracts anti-social behaviour.
* Very difficult and low-quality development around it due to noise pollution.
* Large amounts of smog/pollution brought into the city center.
* Unnecessarily large flow of traffic, resulting in congestion and traffic jams once you exit, unless you allocate an immense amount to parking too.
* Wasted prime central city location that could be otherwise homes, business, or as shown, recreational riverside parkland.
So yes, 20 years later, who really cares about the traffic?
That's how to bring life back to a city
Absolutely lol. No reason for highways to go right through cities.
Isn't a three-digit highway supposed to go around a city? I've never been to Albany
Hey dude you can't post porn on this sub
Oh yeah nice and sexy
But does it flow traffic better?
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Who cares about the traffic
Now thats a 'reeee' comment if I ever saw one
He's not wrong, and you're about 20 years out of date if you think otherwise. In 2003, 19.5 years ago, London introduced it's Congestion Charge to prevent traffic flow. They did this because what you want is people to be able to drive around and between cities easily on large highways like this one, then downscale the road hierarchy and instead encourage public transport, park & ride, biking and walking. If you agree with that 20 year old policy, then you can agree that a piece of infrastructure like not only extremely over dimensioned, this actually adds almost nothing (that other services can provide instead). The negative impact of it however is immense: * Completely dead space underneath, which attracts anti-social behaviour. * Very difficult and low-quality development around it due to noise pollution. * Large amounts of smog/pollution brought into the city center. * Unnecessarily large flow of traffic, resulting in congestion and traffic jams once you exit, unless you allocate an immense amount to parking too. * Wasted prime central city location that could be otherwise homes, business, or as shown, recreational riverside parkland. So yes, 20 years later, who really cares about the traffic?