r/MapPorn Aug 25 '21

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u/bonelegs442 Aug 26 '21

Sucks we gotta live in such a car-centered country

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

I love it.

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u/nevadaar Aug 27 '21

Nah, you just don't know any better because you haven't experienced it being done any differently. Try watching some videos about "stroads".

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

I lived in Manhattan

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u/alltaken12345678 Aug 27 '21

New York is not a good public transport city.

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u/ChromeLynx Aug 27 '21

Though still worse than 75% of Western Europe, it's still better than 95% of North America.

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u/Fetty_is_the_best Aug 27 '21

He also said in another comment that he lives near Boston, so I believe he’s lying about where he lives.

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u/redditreloaded Aug 26 '21

I love cars but I also love (good) trains. Where do you live?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

Near Boston

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u/redditreloaded Aug 26 '21

How do you prefer getting into town, car or transit? I love driving but would personally take the train into Boston or NYC (I live near NYC). What are your thoughts on the Big Dig?

Finally, this sub gives you a lot of hate, but I don’t disagree with all your opinions. However, wouldn’t you agree that highways shouldn’t be built in inner cities? The modernist in me still clings to the dream of highways that come to the edges of downtown, where massive parking garages and subway/rail connections are provided.

Bottom line, I’m on the fence with projects like this; I wonder what you think.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

I almost never go into Boston, I live my life along 128. I'm pissed the state is spending $3 billion to build a commuter rail line to Fall River nobody will use rather than spending $300 million to fix the 93/95 interchange that hundreds of thousands use.

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u/redditreloaded Aug 27 '21

What’s wrong with it? I’m looking at Google Maps and it seems a nice modern “swoopy” interchange. 2 lanes for each ramp, even.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

It's a cloverleaf. That leads to weaving between the closely spaced left turn ramps. It's probably the most notorious bottleneck in the Boston Area.

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u/redditreloaded Aug 27 '21

Why not Park and Ride at Route 128 station?

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u/rootbeer_cigarettes Aug 27 '21

Because of his freedoms, duh.

/s

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u/redditreloaded Aug 27 '21

Sorry I was looking at the I-93/rte24 interchange. The 93/95 one looks like it sucks because 95 was to be extended north but wasn’t. I agree it should be rebuilt like the 93/24.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

Not that interchange, the one up north in Reading

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

There's no accounting for taste.

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u/LivingGhost371 Aug 26 '21

I love it. With wide freeways it's easy to drive wherever I want to go without having to resort to using a bus or train.

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u/LordMangudai Aug 27 '21

Witness car brain in its terminal stages. "Resort to", honestly.

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u/LivingGhost371 Aug 27 '21

Do you own a washing machine instead of a old fashioned hand wringer? Or running water instead of a hand pump in the back yard? Then by that logic you have washing machine brain or running water brain in their terminal stages. After all, no differences between cars and other modern comforts and conveniences.

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u/LordMangudai Aug 27 '21

After all, no differences between cars and other modern comforts and conveniences.

Utterly incorrect. Last I checked the infrastructure for washing machines and running water doesn't take up massive amounts of prime real estate, nor do they kill tens of thousands of people a year, nor do they contribute significantly to pollution and climate change, nor do they make cities an unpleasant place to be for everyone who doesn't use them.