David Zipper“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair
Tab Combs@davidzipper That tweet...it's... I mean how does he think that hiding traffic underground "solves" it? Aside from the obvious and well-known denial of the well-established concept of induced demand, what is there to "solve" about traffic?
Traffic is movement of people and goods. How does providing a way (albeit a crappy way) to move people and goods "solving" the movement of people and goods?
And that photo...it's showing how traffic was redirected after a failure of critical infrastructure...
Traffic is movement of people and goods. How does providing a way (albeit a crappy way) to move people and goods "solving" the movement of people and goods?
And that photo...it's showing how traffic was redirected after a failure of critical infrastructure...
@davidzipper ...so how does creating an even less resilient form of infrastructure--a tunnel in a city that is globally famous for seismic activity--"solve" the fact that when you force everyone into cars by investing only in infrastructure for cars, and when one of those bits of car infrastructure goes out, everybody gets piled onto the other bits of car infrastructure?
Curt Thomas@DrTCombs @davidzipper
I've heard that tunnels are actually pretty resilient to earthquakes if you need them to be. Some of CAHSR's planned tunnels are very near the San Andreas fault, for example. I have significant doubt that Boring Co tunnels will be built to the requisit standard.
I've heard that tunnels are actually pretty resilient to earthquakes if you need them to be. Some of CAHSR's planned tunnels are very near the San Andreas fault, for example. I have significant doubt that Boring Co tunnels will be built to the requisit standard.