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by toddmorey·12y ago·view on hn ↗
There's another question that we are starting to battle recently: how much actual capacity can we honestly add to the road system?

Near my parents' home, there's an intersection of a 18 lanes (!) of highway + access road crossing over a 9-lane surface street. I just don't know how you grow that any further, without the prohibitively expensive option of more vertical stacking.

I've always thought of our current car-based transportation system to be amazingly inefficient when measured in energy consumption per passenger and travel time. But I'm noticing it's also extremely greedy with land use.

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It's not just greedy with land use: it's literally hostile to humanity. In places in the US with a large driving culture it is almost a death wish to walk anywhere (because none of the drivers are expecting to have to watch out for a pedestrian).