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[–] [email protected] 182 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I swear bro, just one more, please

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Worked every time so far, I swear!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just one more and it'll all be fixed, trust me bro

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Double it and pass the problem to the next generation

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 4 months ago (27 children)

Everybody in this photo could fit in like 4 buses

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

See, this is what AI was actually made for. 14 buses.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (3 children)

All of that, for a traffic jam. Imagine turning 4 lanes in a train track carrying 500 person every 5 min in both directions and one lane in a bike lane. It's still 20 lanes for car, but you suddenly have decent public transport which would be safer and faster than that gigantic traffic jam

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or just a decent bus system. You could replace 50 cars on that highway with a single bus.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

THAT'S MY AMERICA 🇺🇸 🦅🔥🔥🔥 ONE MORE LANE DOESN'T FIX IT MY A$$ LOOK AT THIS AND TELL ME IT ISN'T WORKING 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anything but a fucking train...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Coincidentally they form train-like structure, without all the benefits.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I hate cars and highways so much.

I wish we had good mass transit like Europe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Everyone always disparages the cost of public transport but how much does it cost to maintain these highways every year? A few dozen/hundred billion dollars across the country?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Counting the service road is kind of cheating. In built up areas in Texas they're de facto city streets that happen to exactly mirror the freeway. They have intersections, lights, businesses, etc.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Yep. Texas does that because of a state law that says any landowner with property adjacent to a highway has a right to access that highway.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If I count the roads off the sides, on ramps and off ramps, etc, the highest I can get is 18 lanes. Is this the photo of where it’s 26 wide? I can’t seem to find it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I can get to 22 in the foreground of the pic with some lanes underneath others with the flyover ramps.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fwiw, feeder lanes probably shouldn't be counted in Texas because they're basically glorified city streets. Businesses can have entrances and exits on frontage roads, so there's not really anything special about them except that they have a slightly higher speed limit (50~60mph vs 40~45mph) and they have immediate access to the highway.

An interesting article to go along with this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The feeder there is also almost certainly 45. So not really any faster than normal stroads.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

And traffic STILL sucks in Houston

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (24 children)

This is why traffic sucks. Super highways don't reduce traffic, they create it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just came back from tokyo after doing the JR pass travel to view the entire country. I fucking HATE CAR TRAVEL. taking the Narita express to the airport was so painless. Got back to IAH bush Int'ctl and it was a complete clusterfuck trying to get an Uber. Not to mention it was quite literally twice the price the express line train was. And that was one of the more expensive limited expresses too.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hear me out: stack it vertically. It'll be great, I promise

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I know. They should add more lanes.

/s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

We getting out of the traffic jam with this one 🇺🇸🦅🔥🇺🇸

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

And was we can all observe, it has solved traffic for Houston due to accommodating all the cars possible by upgrading with enough lanes perpetually.

It is expected to be complete once the lanes exceed N+1 or the population drops below N.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

shit could have been 1 long passenger and 1/10th of a freight train

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Am I the only one not seeing 26 landed here?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think this is a picture before the most recent expansion. (They saw this picture and said "hmm not wide enough, too congested.")

In the normal parts:

  • 2 express/toll/HOV/carpool lanes
  • 5 regular highway lanes
  • 3 feeder lanes (in Texas, the highways tend to have "feeders" or "service roads" or "frontage roads" that run parallel to highways so that people can exit and enter, turn onto intersecting roads, and access local businesses, and Houston calls them "feeders").

That's 10 in each direction. But at any given time there might be merge lanes between the express and the regular lanes, between the highway and the feeder, or between the feeder and a turn lane. So at the widest point, around the major freeway intersection with another huge toll highway, they bump it up to one more of each type of lane, for 13 lanes in each direction.

There's also a fair debate about whether the feeder lanes should count. After all, they have traffic lights and intersections to deal with. But on the other hand, driving on them is necessary to get on and off the highway lanes, so in a sense it's part of the same highway.

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