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You're not going to teach me to support density and mass transit, because I already do. Passionately. I am incredibly annoying to everyone I know because I beat them over the head with zoning reform rants and the paradox of more lanes.
That's not what we're discussing here.
There is no viable means of moving goods in this country without trucks. I've worked in logistics. There is no intermodal method that can possibly service all of the non-arterial areas of population with only last-mile trucking.
We'd have to forcibly relocate millions of people (as the Chinese did) in order to have this kind of conversion away from single vehicles.
You asked for "why highways are bad?" and I gave it to you. Now you're running over there acting like we were talking about something else.
Hey sorry man I edited and added a lot more. I thought of it right after posting. That's my b.
I appreciate your take and agree with these things, but I view this argument as our over-reliance (I would even say cultural addiction) to highways rather than their existence as a whole.