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Look, I know right now a lot of people are celebrating the completion of Skyway Stage 3, but while people are also all saying "listen to science" we may as well start a thread on why more urban highways are not. great.
Here's an article about the US case
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-cities-history https://twitter.com/4everPhenomFan/status/1316936205146247171
Here's an article about the US case
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-cities-history https://twitter.com/4everPhenomFan/status/1316936205146247171
"These new roads carry a significant amount of traffic and contribute to economic growth, but they also blight large sections of cities, threaten historic urban neighborhoods, and concentrate air pollution in highly populated areas" https://www.itdp.org/2012/03/13/the-life-and-death-of-urban-highways/
Progressive cities have been removing urban highways instead of building more, such as they did on Seoul. The structural concerns will not apply to a new highway but urban noise, pollution, emission and isolation concerns certainly do. https://development.asia/case-study/revitalizing-city-reviving-stream
You think this is all lefty, hippie, tree hugging BS out of touch with reality?
Strong Towns is one of the most conservative planning organizations out there. Their call: No New Roads. https://www.strongtowns.org/nonewroads
Strong Towns is one of the most conservative planning organizations out there. Their call: No New Roads. https://www.strongtowns.org/nonewroads
Will Skyway Stage 3 even reduce congestion? It may create a non-congested part of a trip where you can vroom vroom, but the other parts of the trip might get even more congested. Why? Learn induced demand - the most basic concept in transport science. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/amp
Reminder: in the years that this project was being conceptualized, when we were already suffering from crushing traffic, I can recall zero statements from transport science orgs telling people that this was the planning equivalent of disinfecting masks with gasoline - and it is
This is exactly what it looks like when no scientists speak up against artificial dolomite beaches. This is what we get when an activist wing in a scientific field effectively doesn't exist
