If we are to emulate China’s transportation system, we should look instead at its freeways. Including the interstates and other freeways, the United States has 67,000 freeway miles and is building fewer than 800 new miles a year. China, whose land area is about the same as ours and which has about the same number of motor vehicles as the United States, had 93,000 miles at the end of 2019 and is building 4,000 to 5,000 new miles a year.
Urban freeways are also the safest roads in the country to drive on, while non-freeway arterials are the most dangerous. On top of saving travelers billions of hours a year, replacing non-freeway arterials with freeways could save thousands of lives each year.
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Cato Institute posting cringe.
Can't sell people cars, gas, and tires if they have beautiful trains to ride on.
It also doesn't help that those trains are faster, cheaper, easier, and more convenient than cars
Me: you can’t just declare every road a freeway.
Cato institute (points at Driveway): Freeway.
"We should just be paving the entire fucking planet."
If we make all roads 6 lanes and limit access to all of them there won't be traffic guys.
Thank goodness those don't intersect or anything.
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