Submitted 4 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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The increasing size of American cars has done a lot of damage to our roads. They’re less safe for the roads, for pedestrians, and even sometimes for the occupants.
Tangentially, thanks to red light structure in the city, I often make just as much forward progress as the cars around me on my bike.
But i need my ford f350 heavy duty or my co-worker might think i’m gay
well yes, but what will you do if you see an untermenchen daring to be in public without a steel shield to keep you from its precious flesh meats?
The billionaire money will trickle down to better road maintenance aaaany day now
They just aren’t given enough to do what needs doing.
Guillotines are on back order, with earliest ship dates after December 4th.
Road crews carry the world on their SHOULDERS. haha punny
I think you misspelled "railroad’ crews.
He isn’t wrong. Your bucket of bolts is gonna rattle tf apart on that road.
In my country, that’s just not the case. Road will be patched but badly, so a patch is always be bumpy, sometime enough to act like a road bump.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The roads are bad because sprawling road (read: car) infrastructure is unsustainable and bankrupts cities. What we need is economically sustainable micromobility and public transit infrastructure.
Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If you ever go and look around America on Google maps, it seems insane how much sprawl and unnecessary road infrastructure you have. I can’t imagine America being able to effectively maintain these
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I contribute to OpenStreetMap through surveying and tracing. It’s given me some perspective on how wasteful our infrastructure is and how colossally unusable it is on foot.
(If anyone’s interested, please, please ask me about it; I highly recommend it as a way to have more fun on walks and hyper-familiarize yourself with where you live. The built-in, web-based iD editor is great on desktop, and the third-party Vespucci editor is great on Android. Unfortunately, the appearance of Go Map!! on iOS seems possibly lackluster, but it seems just as functional.)
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
you’ve pretty much got it then. yeah.
60d@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Building roads is only sexy every twenty years or so. Maintaining roads has never been sexy, to my knowledge.
Moving away from roads and cars almost entirely? I dunno how we get political will for that.
Emerald@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well I can’t say building or maintaining roads gets me sexually aroused, but why is maintaining roads not “sexy”?