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Originally Posted by dmitrik4
Exactly. “Better” road infrastructure in the US is defined as “move as many cars as possible as quickly as possible,” with every other consideration running a distant second place, if considered at all.
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This is actually a point of contention with my county government. The county's urban planners want a more holistic look at traffic as it relates to overall QoL.
The state's DOT (Virginia) is stuck in the 1980s and only concerned with moving as many cars as possible with as small a budget as possible (which leads to unusable bike lanes because the lanes are a requirement for some federal funding).
Unfortunately, the DOT owns/maintains the vast majority of roads in the area. The county staff really only gets to provide input during major new development, but day-to-day repaving/restriping projects.