Originally Posted by
CB HI
So How are we going to fit the 100% seperate roads and 100% seperate bike paths and 100% seperate pedestrian paths and 100% seperate rail tracks into our cities at a reasonable cost. Four sets of fully grade seperated facilities really gets expensive.
Rail tracks are already 100% separate, so are ped paths and roads (with some rare exceptions). Many of our arterials and freeways here in Sydney have segragated cycleways, some secondary roads also. We even have a number of segragated busways which works really well.
If we can afford it here in Australia, with the population equivalent to New York city but roughly the same land mass as the USA, then surely you can afford it also. Heck, we even have far more comprehensive public health and welfare systems we fund compared to the USA, you guys should be rolling in money by comparison..... if only it wasn't being p!ssed up the wall in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, half a dozen or so carrier groups, and those 700-odd military bases around the globe.