• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    this logic asssumes more road == population growth

    sure, and telescopes created all the stars in the sky.

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      The number of car-hours per person per year isn’t even close to fixed over the long run. The trend is basically that in the past, people might have carpooled, taken a bus or even hitchhiked, and usually lived close to their job. If the roads get better, they drive more.

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        5 hours ago

        so your idea is installing a system is pushing for classism and hoping to furthering socioeconomic downturn on the landscape of select neighbourhoods with select individuals with large populations that are struggling, paying the most taxes, yet expected to travel for lower wage jobs and you want to make their travel to work harder.

        how bigotted.