"It's impossible to find a place to park," said Mrs. Housewife. So in 1954 Victor Gruen designed (actually invented) the suburban enclosed mall shopping center. By 1980 downtowns were dying as a result.
Interesting to see the attitudes of people behind the wheel back then, and comparing that to the behavior of drivers today: not much difference. Doing things to others that pedestrians most likely would not do to another person walking on the sidewalk. Unfortunately, the mein and demeanor of folks change behind the wheel. Traffic jams are a way of life, especially in the densely populated areas of the country, adding to the stress. Build it, and they surely have come. A well-proven fact since the 1920s.
"More motorized freedom than ever dreamed before" came at the expense of public transportation. This despite General Motors being the leading manufacturer of transit coach buses 1947 through about 1987.
At the beginning of this video, I'm pretty sure that's the Hollywood Freeway ending at the Four Level Interchange in Los Angeles. What I meant to say is US 101 connecting today's CA-110 what used to be called US 6/CA-11.
And now 63 years later, 2/3 of our interstates are in sorry condition. Yet instead of maintaining existing highways with the Federal Highway Trust funds, Congress uses them as pork. We have proposals and also existing construction for Interstates that were not part of the original plan, but that have added to the grid, roads we did not and do not need, such as: 1. Interstate 3 from Knoxville to Savannah, planned to cut right through the great Smoky Mountains. 2. Interstate 11, right through a barren desert from Phoenix to Las Vegas, and perhaps Reno. 3. Interstate 14 from Augusta to the wilds of Louisiana. 4. Interstate 13, from Raleigh to Norfolk and Wilmington, Delaware, through a sparsely populated area, and the Great Dismal Swamp. 5. The extension of Interstate 49 from Fort Smith to Shreveport and from Lafayette, Louisiana, to New Orleans, through the swamps of lower Louisiana, and the 2 biggest boondoggles of all... 6. The extension of Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to the Mexican border, and 7. the northern loop around Birmingham, Interstate 422, which will be the most expensive road project in American history, and provide nothing. (I also forgot the proposed extension of Interstate 66 from its current western terminus in Northern Virginia, through the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas; the construction of unfinished Interstate 73 in West Virginia, Virginia and the Carolinas, and the uncompleted Interstate 74 in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and the Carolinas.) Under the original plan, the completion of the interchange between Interstate 95 and Interstate 276 in North Philadelphia, resulting in the construction of the final missing link of I-95, would have completed the original Interstate grid laid out in 1956. Yet the politics of pork demand that we continue to spend billions of dollars on new roads that we don't need, instead of using the money to fix what we have. Since some of these projects are already " half pregnant, " here's what should happen. 1. We should finish the remaining gaps in I-49 north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, from Fort Smith to Texarkana, and just north of Shreveport, as that road is over 75% complete. 2. The I-69 project should be completed, and, 3. The gaps in I-73, from Roanoke to Myrtle Beach, and I-74, from Cincinnati through Southern Ohio, Western West Virginia, Virginia and the Carolinas to Wilmington, NC should be completed. All of these projects are half pregnant. Once those are compleye, the Interstate system should be de lared finished, once and for all!
"It's impossible to find a place to park," said Mrs. Housewife. So in 1954 Victor Gruen designed (actually invented) the suburban enclosed mall shopping center. By 1980 downtowns were dying as a result.
Interesting to see the attitudes of people behind the wheel back then, and comparing that to the behavior of drivers today: not much difference. Doing things to others that pedestrians most likely would not do to another person walking on the sidewalk. Unfortunately, the mein and demeanor of folks change behind the wheel.
Traffic jams are a way of life, especially in the densely populated areas of the country, adding to the stress. Build it, and they surely have come. A well-proven fact since the 1920s.
Thats why you need subways
"More motorized freedom than ever dreamed before" came at the expense of public transportation. This despite General Motors being the leading manufacturer of transit coach buses 1947 through about 1987.
At the beginning of this video, I'm pretty sure that's the Hollywood Freeway ending at the Four Level Interchange in Los Angeles. What I meant to say is US 101 connecting today's CA-110 what used to be called US 6/CA-11.
And now 63 years later, 2/3 of our interstates are in sorry condition. Yet instead of maintaining existing highways with the Federal Highway Trust funds, Congress uses them as pork.
We have proposals and also existing construction for Interstates that were not part of the original plan, but that have added to the grid, roads we did not and do not need, such as:
1. Interstate 3 from Knoxville to Savannah, planned to cut right through the great Smoky Mountains.
2. Interstate 11, right through a barren desert from Phoenix to Las Vegas, and perhaps Reno.
3. Interstate 14 from Augusta to the wilds of Louisiana.
4. Interstate 13, from Raleigh to Norfolk and Wilmington, Delaware, through a sparsely populated area, and the Great Dismal Swamp.
5. The extension of Interstate 49 from Fort Smith to Shreveport and from
Lafayette, Louisiana, to New Orleans, through the swamps of lower Louisiana, and the 2 biggest boondoggles of all...
6. The extension of Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to the Mexican border, and
7. the northern loop around Birmingham, Interstate 422, which will be the most expensive road project in American history, and provide nothing.
(I also forgot the proposed extension of Interstate 66 from its current western terminus in Northern Virginia, through the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas; the construction of unfinished Interstate 73 in West Virginia, Virginia and the Carolinas, and the uncompleted Interstate 74 in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and the Carolinas.)
Under the original plan, the completion of the interchange between Interstate 95 and Interstate 276 in North Philadelphia, resulting in the construction of the final missing link of I-95, would have completed the original Interstate grid laid out in 1956. Yet the politics of pork demand that we continue to spend billions of dollars on new roads that we don't need, instead of using the money to fix what we have.
Since some of these projects are already " half pregnant, " here's what should happen.
1. We should finish the remaining gaps in I-49 north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, from Fort Smith to Texarkana, and just north of Shreveport, as that road is over 75% complete.
2. The I-69 project should be completed, and,
3. The gaps in I-73, from Roanoke to Myrtle Beach, and I-74, from Cincinnati through Southern Ohio, Western West Virginia, Virginia and the Carolinas to Wilmington, NC should be completed. All of these projects are half pregnant.
Once those are compleye, the Interstate system should be de lared finished, once and for all!
It’s the same ole shit today on the interstates