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Originally Posted by JManc
You never been to Texas have you? Should we halt all freeway (re)construction and just hope Houstonians eventually warm up to mass transit or are you going to invest where the demand is right now and in the near future?
And no, bigger vehicles doesn't mean bigger freeways. lol We could all be driving Honda Fits and the expansions would still be necessary. Texas cities are growing fast and decades old infrastructure meant for areas a fraction of their sizes are maxed out. See Austin.
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What are we arguing here? You think freeway expansion in urban neighborhoods is good, I think it's bad.
There's no debate that larger vehicles require more road space. The U.S. has overengineered roads because it has huge vehicles, and TX is an extreme example of both American trends. Big vehicles, big roads.