41 points

Anything but a fucking train…

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21 points

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

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3 points

Soooo like for profit health insurance? Murica

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7 points

And quintuple the emissions

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4 points

Yup. Trains are stupidly efficient.

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181 points

One more lane, bro

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61 points

I swear bro, just one more, please

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23 points

Worked every time so far, I swear!

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1 point

WE’RE GONNA FIX TRAFFIC, FOR REAL THIS TIME

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

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12 points

Double it and pass the problem to the next generation

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There are 2-4 HOV/toll lanes in the middle depending on where you are in the city. I only see 2 in this photo, and they aren’t called out in OP’s title.

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4 points

Sorry- “progress”???

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4 points

I was being ironic.

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1 point

Totally missed that tone. My bad, sorry.

le sigh though

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1 point

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

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35 points

I hate cars and highways so much.

I wish we had good mass transit like Europe.

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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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In USA they fund maintenance by developing the sprawl. So they are stuck in this circle where if they don’t develop, they can’t maintain, but developing means more surface to maintain, etc.

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Also how much supposed leasure time is wasted sitting in all those cars, making the people frustrated, sick and unfulfilled?

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they’re not really maintained much anymore other than minor stuff. even that costs tons of money and is of minimal benefit for job security of departments doing it. you’ll all be dead before any major development or changes occur. and even if they decided to do something major, the construction of it while you wait for it to be done over the years will make transportation even more unbearable for those years.

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China’s mass transit is better. Probably we should just hire the Chinese to construct a national bullet train network in ten years like they did in China. But wait, we can’t do that because that threatens the profits of the bourgeoisie, who are the true rulers of amerikkka. Oh well, enjoy your eight hour commute to make your bosses richer!

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Japan pretty much has it figured out. Bunch of trains, slow or fast, fancy or frugal. Whatever fits you there’s an option. You can get a Pikachu train with a shop and children’s playground if you want to.

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3 points

Tofu dregs. You should look that up.

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China also kinda just forces anyone out who’s in the way. To build any new infrastructure the US ends up getting slowed down to a crawl because of red tape and beurocracy. Land owners have a lot more rights in the US.

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Which corporate CIA source should I use to excuse the nazis who run the USA?

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13 points

I know. They should add more lanes.

/s

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