@knizer
Some 3 and some 4, haven't really decided where the balance lies.
@stevegis_ssg I feel like we should have Nice Things if we are going to continue living in Taxachusetts tho.
@knizer @stevegis_ssg Big Dig was done poorly, and burying highway under the city is still fundamentally car brained. Even that, it opened up the waterfront and brings the city to a whole different level of livability.
Politicians in the US are so short lived that most leaders don’t do anything that costs a fortune but benefits generations to come. So everything in this country is just patches on top of patches. How long can it still work?
I'm not sure I agree with you here on some points - I think the Big Dig gets a bad rap.
Is there a nation that you think is handling the ongoing maintenance of long-term settlements significantly better? What might we learn from their examples?
@knizer @stevegis_ssg yeah, Big Dig blew up the budget (just like any other public infra project), had so much corruption and the bad construction quality (due to the corruption I guess) killed people. But no one misses having the elevated freeway running through the city.
European countries have significantly better transit systems, in addition to their REAL high speed trains. Maybe US is better at building highways?
China built high speed rails like me playing cities skyline... China is a bad example though because it's a dictatorship...