Hopefully we're also demolishing Trump's failed wall too...
Hopefully we're also demolishing Trump's failed wall too...
Because "infrastructure" means paving over 40% of all the area of a city for roads so that cars can park idling for 4 hours per day of rush hour traffic.
the dumb keeps rolling in.
the wind and the rain are already taking care of that
Another Trump boondoggle. Who would have seen THAT coming?
Other than his casino creditors that is.
or the suckers fleeced in the "university" scam...
or the.... etc.
Only if Mexico pays for it again!
If wind and rain is code for Trump's opposition while in office then yes you're correct!
still spending all day here stanning for the guy you pretended not to support?
spending on transportation was always to enrich BigOil that never saw a proposed public transit system that it wouldn't try to block to keep people buying gas
70% of US oil goes to transport (ground and air)
removing highways the bisect cities is already a trend, and the cities are greatly improved
Cities around the country explore removing elevated highways with federal funding
In cities around the country, residents are in various stages of working to
remove elevated or sunken highways that seemed promising in the 1950s and 1960s
but are now considered by many to be planning blunders.
https://www.archpaper.com/2021/06/ex...ructure-funds/
As seen with CRT, many highways have been located to isolate (or run through) poor (black, brown) sections of a city.
Sorry you can't accept the fact that he was in office recently and this wall went up during his time in office and was curtailed by his opposition the whole way... Who should I refer to when referencing the wall and "..." opposition?
It's so ing re ed that mentioning Trump is somehow equated to being his fanboy of sorts. I mention him because he's integral to what we are discussing. Sorry if you have TDS and you try to make everything out to be about Trump himself; I am merely pointing out that he had opposition the whole way and you can't refute that whatsoever so you come crying to me about your false impression of who I am and who I support politically.
You want to know who I support politically? Anyone who has common sense, logic, and isn't trying to subvert our nation like your dude Biden in office right ing now! If not agreeing with political kabuki like we have in the WH rn is fanboying for Trump then so be it!
Ask jey if he supports/supported Trump specifically.
Cool thing about those wall images - there aren't 10,000 people camping there.
DMC wants to nuke Nuevo Laredo.
More lanes = more congestion
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ments-protestsCity leaders in Texas, meanwhile, have also started to question the car-centric status quo. San Antonio planned to narrow a two-mile stretch of Broadway Avenue, a key thoroughfare, and add protected bike lanes, only for Texas DoT to overrule the city in January to halt it, citing fears over worsened traffic congestion. Ron Nirenberg, San Antonio’s mayor, accused the state of “1950s thinking” and a “religious fascination” with highway expansions.
“Five years ago the idea that there would be any elected officials publicly opposing a freeway widening would seem farfetched,” said Jay Crossley, executive director of Farm and City, a non-profit that works on Texas urban living issues. “A lot is changing in Texas.”
But the federal government is still funneling $350bn to the states for highways via the infrastructure bill, a situation that experts warn could wreck the US’ climate targets by spurring more car driving and planet-heating emissions. While some states, such as California, have started to recognize studies that show if you sow more asphalt you simply reap more traffic, Texas is pushing ahead with an unprecedented blitz of new road space for cars.
“This is a make-or-break moment. How the states use those highway funds will basically determine whether we meet our transportation emissions goals,” said Ben Holland, an urban design and land use expert at RMI, a clean energy non-profit.
Beyond the highway expansion in Houston, Texas is upsizing major roadways that carve through Austin and El Paso, as well as eliminating the planned bike lanes and pedestrian crossings in San Antonio. The frenzy of road building is championed by Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, as a response to the state’s ballooning population, which grows by about 1,100 people a day, and driver frustration over gridlock.
“Highways are essentially fossil fuel infrastructure but we haven’t really heard about them in climate discussions until now,” Holland said. “It’s just been universally accepted that it’s too hard to get people out of their vehicles and provide alternatives. There is certainly a car culture here, but in large part that’s because it’s been mandated.”
In Texas, the mandate for the supremacy of roads comes via the state cons ution, which requires that highways are funded to the exclusion of almost anything else that moves people around. About 97% of the $30bn a year the state gives its transportation department is spent on highways, leaving very little for buses, trains or bicycles. This focus is etched into the stone of the department’s headquarters, which is named the State Highway Building, a le carved above a triptych of native Americans on a horse, a pioneer wagon and a car.
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