US Infrastructure

[Spider]

[Southern Dad]

I've lived several years in Germany and The Netherlands. So, I have seen it. I am not an expert on it but I've seen it. There are big differences between our systems and theirs. Many things that work there, would be difficult to implement here in the USA and vice versa. Look at their transportation system. Their train system is a great way to travel. Of course, it comes with a price, those railway right of ways are often unsightly and criss cross everywhere. People travel by bicycle as much as cars, can you imagine that in the USA?

In European countries they have far less vehicles. The price of buying a vehicle is much more. In addition, there's the cost of fuel, insurance, inspections, and taxes on the vehicles. Yes, we have that here in the USA but it take more of their disposable income, there. All of our vehicle traffic takes a hard toll on our roads and bridges. Places I visited in NL had cobblestone roads that were laid long before I was alive. I would drive on a four lane from Steenwijk to Soesterberg. The road was beautiful, flat and rarely crowded.

The faster we build roads, the more vehicles are traveling on them. The more damage is done to the roads. Our infrastructure is in the shape it is in from use not lack of attention. I can't remember the last time I drove from my home in Monroe, GA to Orlando, FL and did not encounter construction zones. We are constantly working on these roads. Always building new bridges, paving sections, adding lanes. How many airports do we have in the United States? How many miles of roads? That's all infrastructure that we've built and use without even thinking about it.

[Southern Dad]

[eric]

[Winchester]

[Southern Dad]

[eric]

That's because the bike lanes f**k blow dude. In Columbus every once in awhile they get a wild hair up their ass to build bike lanes. Know where they put them? In traffic. How retarded is that? I like to walk and ride my bike but I'm sure as hell not riding in traffic. That's just stupid.

In cbus idk about the bus to cleveland, but there are a couple of "college" buses that are filled to max capacity every day. If it's the same bus you're talking about. People use the stuff, so long as its maintained. Idk about Amtrack, but again I would imagine it's just done shitty, or it runs to places like Gary, Indiana where nobody would go. In Ohio we've been talking about putting a train from Cleveland to Columbus to Cincinnati. I think it would be wildly successful considering the people I know who COMMUTE between these cities. I know a guy that drives to Cleveland from North Cbus every day. Additionally one of the problems is that once you get to these cities the public transportation sucks, so you're screwed without a car. The new buses in cbus have been really successful too because the city takes care of them.

I love cars. Don't get me wrong. Nothing against them at all. I just think if we did alternative transportation right, people would use it.

Sorry for the text wall. On my phone.

[eric]

Also. Do you think the Dutch are genetically predisposed to riding bikes? Hell no. They just have nice f**k bike land and stuff. For example, the lanes are between sidewalks and parked cars (at least in some places I've seen from pictures).

[eynon81]

[eric]

We are tall too. We would be skinny if we rode bikes more and didn't jack off to cheese burgers