This article fails to mention that the trucking and excavation company hired to do the work abandoned the project after not getting paid.
Remind me again about the time that adding any capacity to any road resolved traffic congestion.
Tacoma narrows
One more lane. Just one more lane and your troubles go away.
How’s the Vegas Loop handling traffic again?
Oh, right… it’s a taxi service through a tube underground between the airport and the convention center… not very usable by all.
The “Music City Loop” will feature a fleet of chauffeured Teslas
Are you fucking kidding me? Aren’t they building robotaxis now? Why wouldn’t they use them?
“Just one more lane, bro! We’ll fix traffic! Just one more lane…”
Burying the lanes doesn’t make them less subject to the geometry of cars.
Ontario’s MAGA Premiere is spending millions in a feasibility study to build multi-lane tunnels under a highway 14 lanes wide at points.
He never graduate high school.
Let him build it.
Let the chauffered car thing fail.
Eminent domain the tunnel.
Stick a fucking train in it.
The boring company tunnels are a problem.
They don’t have the boring normal stuff you need for an actual transit line, like service access or evacuation routes or proper ventilation. They’re being disruptive by ignoring everything we’ve learned since the 1800s about tunnel building. It might be easier to retrofit than dig a fresh tunnel, but at that point you’re limited to the route they dug, which probably isn’t as useful for transporting people instead of cars.
The routes themselves are bad. The tunnels run below already existing state highways. It saves them admin time only having to get approval from the agency that manages the highways, but makes it a poor choice for a transit line.
A conversion could be useful for getting people to the city center from the airport. But any station along the route would be difficult to access, unpleasant to be in, and be of little use to anyone being buried under a highway.
I’m half with you; eminent domain it, but I wouldn’t trust his tunnels with humans in them. Maybe it could be repurposed as a way to redirect flood waters or something. His tunneling ability is right up there with his morality acumen.
Is he really digging one, or did he pay someone else to?
Because I doubt he actually has done any physical labour in his life.
the bellevue and other west nash nimbys are not gonna like this. unless it goes from 840’s entry around dickson west through toward murph.
edit: oh read it more an this is so stupid. there is no parking there by the arena worth it. so it’ll just be tourists paying big to go from airport to downtown. then they can pedal bar woo girl to their hotels?
pedal bar woo girl to their hotels?
Is this English?
nashville has these dumbass rolling bars where a driver and bartender cart folks around who pretend to be powering it by bicycle.
woo girls are just drunk chicks on a weekend before a wedding. screaming woo.
Of all the many many dumb things on this floating rock, this is maybe the dumbest
