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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It is absolutely stupid to add more lines for a main road as long as the outflow from it can't handle it. Ten lanes of motorway makes no sense if the one outlet 90% of the cars want to take has one lane and nasty traffic lights at the next corner.

City planners should be forced to play Cities:Skylines. Lessons to be learned: a) Make public transport good and free, and b) Lane Maths.

[–] defaultsamson@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Part of the problem with city planners is that much of their job is just alleviating car traffic. And if they were successful at doing (like making good public transport and walkable cities) they would have far less work, and be put out of a job.

That being said, I think they would realistically just start working on other city issues, but I think that's the mindset that keeps them building this kind of stuff.

I bet there's also a factor of that things are already going in this direction, and there's already more demand for driving, and it's far more difficult to go against the grain.

[–] Oneshot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 hours ago

More like "just one more lane"

What the hell is that?!

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 1 points 8 hours ago

We really trains that fast between two points which so many people travel.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

I present to you hwy 401 in Toronto Ontario Canada. 18 lanes at its widest point. (Just south of Pearson International Airport)

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Imagine, all these commuter cars, steel, concrete and asphalt could be replaced with a single 30 megaton blast crater.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

I went looking for 404 but that can't be found.

[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 13 points 18 hours ago

And still stop and go anywhere near rush hour

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 21 hours ago
[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Hwys really should not need to be any wider that what's shown in this photo.

Trucks and trailers on the left always, cars in the middle, and passing on the right.

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[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

All good and well until you have a 3 or 4 trailer road train limited to 90kph with a poor little box truck stuck behind it wanting to do 110kph. Trucks should be allowed in the middle lane for overtaking each other.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 22 hours ago

one more line bro

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is that for real? That looks insane.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even if its not I know LA has crazy traffic from being in it

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Lol you can tell how old this picture is because no one has those asshole, melt your face led headlights.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

America bad and everything but this looks like it's a photo of the China National Highway 110 traffic jam

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

The traffic in Beijing and even more so Seoul really disappointed me. Why do so many people drive when theres subways and buses every 2 minutes at rush hour? I mean I get Beijing a little, all the roads are so wide and the subway stations are so massive, but seoul even has dedicated bus lanes that beat cars at rush hour, and people still drive.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

You know how the weather forecast has the temperature and the "feels like" temperature?

Well, this is the 405 and the "feels like" 405.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you Cunningham's Law

Edit: i don't mean that in a bad way, thanks for providing the source

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

Cunts in my area.

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No it is not. There copies of cars everywhere. Looks like they just doubled everything horizontally.

[–] rowdy@lemmy.zip 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Classic you’re being downvoted by those with little internet common sense. The image is doctored and the patterns repeat frequently - you’re right.

E: feel free to downvote me all you want, that won’t make you any less wrong

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ehm, nope? You know that white and black/dark blue/dark greyish are the most prevalent car colors?

Look at the trucks and minivans that are a bit more distinct. Their patterns with other white cars around do not repeat.

Also the one in the picture only has 20 lanes. The US widest has 26 lanes

https://roadstotravel.net/usa-katy-freeway/

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Your media literacy is dogshit.

[–] rowdy@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Ehm, nope? You know that white and black/dark blue/dark greyish are the most prevalent car colors?

You sound insufferable and also you’re wrong.

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/405-traffic-altered-image-factcheck

[–] Saleh@feddit.org -3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The claim was that everything was copied horizontally, which is evidently not the case in the picture. Also as i have linked the widest "freeway" in the US has even more lanes.

Thank you for posting the article. As you can read in the article they prove the fact that the image is altered by pointing out the number of lanes being wrong, not by "suspicious patterns" in the cars.

The claim that the image was just doubled horizontally simply does not check out. There was more effort put into creating the fake.

[–] rowdy@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

Don’t let your goalpost get away!

[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the original there are definitely suspicious repeating and mirrored patterns.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org -3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

this is the one that jumped out at me. On closer inspection, it seems like the some of the traffic on the left side is headed away from the camera. And also, some of the shadows, again on the left side seem to be different to the rest. I'd guess that the left hand has been shopped more, with maybe minimal filling of thebright side.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The Katy Freeway isn’t that bad, but dammit it’s TRYING!

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago

Is that I-10 through LA or I-10 through Houston?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember what you're fighting for ❤️

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

An Nvidia series 5000 card 😍

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago

Enlistment guarantees a GPU!

The war to end all wars!

[–] albert180@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a slamdunk example for Mass Transport