While also providing 0 alternatives… yeah that will work.
That’s like going on a diet planning to not eat food until you reach your target weight.
And when the problem is resolved, then what? Everyone starts driving their cars again?
Zero planning whatsoever.
Those alternatives are anti conservative. At least the definition those stupid fascist ascribe to.
Maybe they shouldn’t have cancelled the high speed rail project, or done anything at all for public transit instead of adding one more lane to I-35
Yea thats not possible at all. We are lucky to even have SIDEWALKS in certain areas you have to drive EVERYWHERE. get me out.
Even in cities like Austin, sidewalks are missing. That’s a wheelchair accessibility issue.
Can you blame the city for trying to contain the Abbot virus?
How? They’re sidewalks, not siderolls.
Haha!
sidewalks have always been a privilege for the elite and wealthy, NOT A RIGHT, use a death machine like a normal person and quit whining.
A buddy of mine in NYC was offered a $14k bonus to move to Texas, closer to his employer. He declined for a bunch of obvious reasons, but one was that he and his girlfriend would each need a car to get around. That would quickly eat into that bonus, if not use it up entirely.
Ok so what should they use instead?
Texas is recommending some kind of alternative, right?
I read this in the form of the Anakin-Padmé meme.
As in Analin Slywaller?
But how they did Luke?
“I hate cars, they’re coarse and irritating and get everywhere!”
Oh, you mean the other one?
Trucks? I think the answer is more trucks on the road. Fewer cars so theres more gas for trucks, right?
The state with the widest freeway in the world?
Just one more lane, that will fix it this time for real.
In Austin we fought tooth and nail to not have the highway expanded in downtown but the state is doing it anyway. Gonna lose some historic buildings and displace residents and solve nothing.
Drove through those one time. Only been to Texas once. We ended up on the top one of like six stacked up (not exaggerating, maybe off by one). Got a chuckle from my husband when I dramatically declared “I stand atop the hubris of man!”
If it was DFW, you’re almost certainly taking about the High 5 (exchange between I-75 and I-635,) or the Mixmaster, (exchange between I-30 and I-35.)
Both were marketed as a way to eliminate traffic between the two highways. Both are now notorious for always having traffic, because more people started driving after they were finished. I’m not sure which one is actually taller, but the High Five certainly feels taller because you have buildings on each side where you can look out and see that you’re level with their middle floors.
There’s even a particular style of massive highway interchanges nicknamed ‘Texas style stack interchanges.’
Basically their outer roads(frontage roads) are just smaller highways, and those all get their own interchange right on top of the main highway interchange, resulting in a giant pasta bowl of overpasses.
Their highway infrastructure is absurd
I hate driving in that state so much because of how stupidly they designed their roads.
That and their love of doing 35 - 90 - 35 in like 2 mile intervals
It’s not even close to the widest in the world.
Horses are a traditional and conservative mode of travel. They should return to that.
I mean, we already ride our horses to work /s
Yes, I have actually been asked if we ride horses to work/school when people find out where I’m from. My typical response is “only on Tuesdays and Thursdays” with a very dry tone, and the looks on their faces never disappoints.
The leaders turn to lepers praying to survive.
They have no plan, just don’t stop giving the oil and auto industries money. What a fucken shitshow this has turned out to be. Turns out, if you fuck up education enough, those people eventually grow up and have to lead the country illequipped, not that they care though. They’d turn every school in the country into Elan School if they could.
Now that they realized global warming is a direct threat to their lives they won’t just pretend it doesn’t exist. But no worry, they’ll find a way to make it like it doesn’t have any link with global warming.
Fuck those hypocrites.
Maybe improve public transit a bit (read as a lot) then try asking