🚗Future of Transportation🚙
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In cities with unprecedented populations, such as Houston. Daily transportation has become a nearly all-consuming hassle for city governments with problems such as road-decay, increasing traffic, regulation of traffic laws, and crashes. With the inherent flaws in our current system, it seems we need either a better option or a more efficient execution of this way. However, with the latter option, it seems the only options in coastal cities, such as NY, Hou, LA, etc, is to build up, and as the California double stacked interstate collapse shows us, this could be a dangerous combination. We also need to think towards our already established roads and bridges. A study by the Army Corps of Engineers showed that, if I remember correctly, up to 30% of our bridges are in need of replacement or repair. This study included the bridge that collapsed in (Minnesota or Missouri I believe, it 330 and I'm a little fuzzy).
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It was the I-35 in Minnesota.
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However, repairs and reconstruction does not come cheaply, and in most cases, city governments cannot fit the bill for all necessary projects, leaving some roads in a dire state. In fact, a road I travel on every day is known to have chunks of asphalt fling up from cars tires. Barring the road problem, we have a traffic system that would be perfect if humans were not inherently flawed. Thousands of lives would be saved yearly if traffic lights were obeyed, additional thousands may be saved if people were not driving distracted, drowsy, drunk, or just crazily. It seems like there must be a better system for people to get from a to b safely and more effiecently as well.
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My main point for making this thread is for us to see what we could come up with to address any of the 4 of the problems I outlined in the beginning. It seems we have some very intelligent people here who could come up with some relevant and innovative ways to remedy some of our transportation woes.
I personally believe that the nations greatest threat in the coming century is the crumbling of our infrastructure, and the backbone of our infrastructure is our transportation system. -
-I say lets tax the top 1%.
-Recall the national guard serving over seas.
-States lower military budget.
-throw that into roads and infulstructure in a state budget.
-return the federal government to a minor role.
-Reapply red tape around the financial, Insurence, and housing markets.
-Oh and penalize American corporations that jump ship, manufacturing wise, for cheap, inhumane labor with increased tariffs and import taxes on non American made goods. Especially if they appear in the S&P 250. -
₲яєєŋϻɑɳÐɪʂɪƞfø wrote:
Woah! Be careful there! Your heading towards isolationism. That's never a good sign.-I say lets tax the top 1%.
-Recall the national guard serving over seas.
-States lower military budget.
-throw that into roads and infulstructure in a state budget.
-return the federal government to a minor role.
-Reapply red tape around the financial, Insurence, and housing markets.
-Oh and penalize American corporations that jump ship, manufacturing wise, for cheap, inhumane labor with increased tariffs and import taxes on non American made goods. Especially if they appear in the S&P 250. -
₲яєєŋϻɑɳÐɪʂɪƞfø wrote:
-I say lets tax the top 1%.
-Recall the national guard serving over seas.
-States lower military budget.
-throw that into roads and infulstructure in a state budget.
-return the federal government to a minor role.
-Reapply red tape around the financial, Insurence, and housing markets.
-Oh and penalize American corporations that jump ship, manufacturing wise, for cheap, inhumane labor with increased tariffs and import taxes on non American made goods. Especially if they appear in the S&P 250.1%?
penalise corporations for making money?
Communism. -
₲ɛƞɛяɑƖ ₳łɑƌɛɛƞ wrote:
Fantastic idea***₲яєєŋϻɑɳÐɪʂɪƞfø wrote:
-I say lets tax the top 1%.
-Recall the national guard serving over seas.
-States lower military budget.
-throw that into roads and infulstructure in a state budget.
-return the federal government to a minor role.
-Reapply red tape around the financial, Insurence, and housing markets.
-Oh and penalize American corporations that jump ship, manufacturing wise, for cheap, inhumane labor with increased tariffs and import taxes on non American made goods. Especially if they appear in the S&P 250.1%?
penalise corporations for making money?
Communism. -
₲яєєŋϻɑɳÐɪʂɪƞfø wrote:
I agree with you 90%. I say flat tax on everything over 100k and graduated below that. Don't punish for moving outside the US but rather encourage to do business here. Carrot vs stick.-I say lets tax the top 1%.
-Recall the national guard serving over seas.
-States lower military budget.
-throw that into roads and infulstructure in a state budget.
-return the federal government to a minor role.
-Reapply red tape around the financial, Insurence, and housing markets.
-Oh and penalize American corporations that jump ship, manufacturing wise, for cheap, inhumane labor with increased tariffs and import taxes on non American made goods. Especially if they appear in the S&P 250. -
₲ɛƞɛяɑƖ ₳łɑƌɛɛƞ wrote:
Until you hit the top potential profits in of an economy. Then you need a reset as last checkpoint button.₲яєєŋϻɑɳÐɪʂɪƞfø wrote:
-I say lets tax the top 1%.
-Recall the national guard serving over seas.
-States lower military budget.
-throw that into roads and infulstructure in a state budget.
-return the federal government to a minor role.
-Reapply red tape around the financial, Insurence, and housing markets.
-Oh and penalize American corporations that jump ship, manufacturing wise, for cheap, inhumane labor with increased tariffs and import taxes on non American made goods. Especially if they appear in the S&P 250.1%?
penalise corporations for making money?
Communism. -
Or I have no idea and All that was bs. It's not up to me.
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Get public transport systems fixed so roads are used more effectively with more passengers per vehicle (better bus routes/frequency/cost).
Freight and good to be limited to using city roads only after 7:30pm and before 5:00am.
Better railway systems actually replacing some roads or running above/below/parallel with freeways. -
Tell the fucking city councils that if they don't like it, move.
Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch!
Maybe the traffic problem will make people move away, or use mass-transit, or move closer to work. It's a self-regulating feedback loop.
It will only get as bad as people will tolerate it.
Enough people in traffic every day, and maybe people will seek alternatives on their own.
Relish it.
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🐒🐒we could all ride monkeys🐒🐒
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As a response to crashes and regulation of laws, I am Very supportive of the idea of a network of cars who know where each car is and if a crash seems possible, will find the best way to avoid it by taking temporary control. The downside to a plan like this is the potential for hackers or governments to use these networks to potentially infringe on the rights of the riders by crashing them purposely, shutting down the system, or using the system to illegally track people's movements.
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