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For a small segment of the trip. The problem with public transportation is that all these people are going to different locations and a bus being more efficient for 50% of the travel doesn't really help you for the other 50%

See, this is what AI was actually made for. 14 buses.

Or just a decent bus system. You could replace 50 cars on that highway with a single bus.

Yeah, well, many people are deeply stupid. And selfish. And racist. But I repeat myself.

Personally I think anyone who goes like "I don't want to ride a train I might have to sit next to a black person" should be dealt with more assertively, but I'm not in charge.

Coincidentally they form train-like structure, without all the benefits.

Everyone always disparages the cost of public transport but how much does it cost to maintain these highways every year? A few dozen/hundred billion dollars across the country?

China’s mass transit is better. Probably we should just hire the Chinese to construct a national bullet train network in ten years like they did in China. But wait, we can’t do that because that threatens the profits of the bourgeoisie, who are the true rulers of amerikkka. Oh well, enjoy your eight hour commute to make your bosses richer!

Yep. Texas does that because of a state law that says any landowner with property adjacent to a highway has a right to access that highway.

The feeder there is also almost certainly 45. So not really any faster than normal stroads.

This is why traffic sucks. Super highways don't reduce traffic, they create it.

I think this is a picture before the most recent expansion. (They saw this picture and said "hmm not wide enough, too congested.")

In the normal parts:

• 2 express/toll/HOV/carpool lanes
• 5 regular highway lanes
• 3 feeder lanes (in Texas, the highways tend to have "feeders" or "service roads" or "frontage roads" that run parallel to highways so that people can exit and enter, turn onto intersecting roads, and access local businesses, and Houston calls them "feeders").

That's 10 in each direction. But at any given time there might be merge lanes between the express and the regular lanes, between the highway and the feeder, or between the feeder and a turn lane. So at the widest point, around the major freeway intersection with another huge toll highway, they bump it up to one more of each type of lane, for 13 lanes in each direction.

There's also a fair debate about whether the feeder lanes should count. After all, they have traffic lights and intersections to deal with. But on the other hand, driving on them is necessary to get on and off the highway lanes, so in a sense it's part of the same highway.

Cities don't inherently create this much private traffic. Car centric city planning does. You can build cities that are not centered around cars. It is, in fact, easier to plan for fewer cars per person if everyone lives close together, because the places you need to go will be closer and you can bike or walk, and there's enough people for public transport to go frequently and everywhere without being half empty.