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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yeah see that's what I was talking about. you don't have to ask for 7.7 trillion dollars all at once, because we already spend a pretty ludicrous amount on road maintenance already.

That's how every congressional budget is configured....... When they run scare tactics about universal healthcare going to cost trillions of dollars they don't mean all at once. When they pass something like an infrastructure bill they also have to explain how to pay for it and for how long.

you just redesign the road the next time the maintenance schedule comes around, which works out to be like. what you were already gonna spend, + the cost of paint you were already gonna use, + maybe some bollards, -

That's not how roads work..... The maintenance schedule is just fixing the top layer of paving. The bulk of the cost is in reshaping land and pouring the concrete foundations. If all you're doing is repaving the top layer it's not going to make any significant changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If all you’re doing is repaving the top layer it’s not going to make any significant changes.

more than you might think, again, even just with paint. a road diet can take a four lane road down to two lanes, and can add bike lanes and a turn lane, which cuts down on traffic accidents from lane changes, and potentially road speed. you can do a lot with on street parking, and then you can increase the width of bike lanes and increase their traffic separation even more, if you really want to encroach on the space cars are taking up. you can focus larger projects on given intersections, you can increase the size of curbs, once foot traffic increases, and it becomes easier to justify. I don't have solutions for like a six lane fully stroaded out shithole, outside of maybe trying to make it into a boulevard with planters and trees and pedestrian islands in the middle, because the crossings are too long. you can also do that shit they did with covid and just cut off a street for a weekend and then see whatever the increase in foot traffic ends up being, and then present the results of that trial, which is a good way to get the idea across and raise support in the community.

if none of those, combined with changing zoning laws to allow more mixed-use development, and more built up development, if none of that strikes you as "significant changes", then I don't really know what to tell you. it takes a while to accomplish, and at this point in most places in america is a multi-generation effort, but I dunno, that's just kind of the way it is. if you're really cynical, I guess there's caltrops? like I dunno, what's your alternative here?