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

Professorozone ,

Am I the only one not seeing 26 landed here?

Stovetop ,

Unless they count the shoulders as their own lanes, I don’t see 26 either.

booly ,

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.

neclimdul ,

Yeah that’s a better description.

Also of note this is part of the evacuation system for hurricanes. All lanes are outbown in an evacuation.

But it also kinda hides some of the crappyness. it was supposed to be on top of a giant underground flood diversion system which is a huge problem for Houston as you may have heard. Also the center was supposed to be for a commuter rail but we couldn’t get the bond passed so that might happen someday…

shalafi ,

Reason why I loathe cities.

ch00f ,

What does a 26 lane highway have to do with cities?

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

You tend not to find 26 lane highways out in the middle of the bush?

ch00f ,

You also tend to not find them in the middle of cities. Texas just happens to be a car-dependent wasteland.

DarkThoughts ,

This is literally a consequence of urban sprawl & cars, not cities. lol

Droggelbecher ,

Cities don’t inherently create this much private traffic. Car centric city planning does. You can build cities that are not centered around cars. It is, in fact, easier to plan for fewer cars per person if everyone lives close together, because the places you need to go will be closer and you can bike or walk, and there’s enough people for public transport to go frequently and everywhere without being half empty.

MentalEdge ,
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Infrastructure like this is mutually exclusive with the urban density of a real city.

If you have a highway like this, all you get is a highway, instead of a city.

DarkThoughts ,

/m/[email protected]

Zahille7 ,

Texas highways are fucking terrible.

And I’m gonna have to deal with them in a couple weeks.

sxan ,
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I mean no shade, but I was honestly expecting as I scrolled down that this would be posted in c/ABoringDystopia

harrybo93 ,
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Sorry- “progress”???

nimomycelium OP ,
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I was being ironic.

harrybo93 ,
@harrybo93@lemmy.world avatar

Totally missed that tone. My bad, sorry.

le sigh though

nimomycelium OP ,
@nimomycelium@lemmy.world avatar

Text isn’t always the best medium to convey irony/sarcasm.

Audacious ,

From the picture, I count 16 lanes. Is the pic accurate?

queue ,
@queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This is the America that “let’s freedom ring”. A clusterfuck of metal boxes.

knacht1 ,
@knacht1@lemmy.world avatar

Try crossing that road froggy.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Extraterrestrial observer: And, do they know each of those vehicles are directly killing all life as they know it?

‘Murican: (Proudly) Yes!

toofpic ,

Yea, progress, progress

kbal ,
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https://alt.pavethe.earth/

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