This "small" $1.2 billion dollar road expansion project exceeds all funding for public transit in my state. I don't want to hear anyone complain about "subsidizing public transit" ever again.

It's a similar thing here in Austin. Rather than expand the light rail system, the state is expanding I-35 through downtown.

However, it's not so cut and dry. See, the city has to fund the light rail expansion, while the Texas Department of Transportation funds the highway expansion. Both have access to the same data, but the latter is restricted by law to only spend money on expansions to alleviate traffic on highways. Alternative modes of transport aren't even considered because it would be against the law to spend any money on it. So if the data says there's too much traffic, the state has the money to fix it and they're only allowed to fix it in precisely one way.

It's ridiculous.

I was just reading a similar article about California High Speed Rail. One of the problems with that infrastructure project is the state had to fund most of it, while the federal government tends to fund 80% of highways.

And even then Trump screws up the funding every time he gets in office

Looks like they are expanding what looks like a "decently designed" road into a full scale hwy?

Seems a little hasty and not understood tbh as roads should ideally not exceed 3 lanes. Road should also serve as a "connection", where hwys empty out onto roads, and then roads empty out into streets.

Seems with this redesign you might get a full scale hwy emptying out onto a street which then will probably get redesigned into a "strode".

Roads are throughways, streets are destinations.

What a road looks like:

What a street looks like:

Or my favorite, pedestrian only streets with tram lines.