Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
www.nytimes.com
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16028585

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10092805

In Colorado, that new vision was catalyzed by climate change. In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law that required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent within 30 years. As the state tried to figure out how it would get there, it zeroed in on drivers. Transportation is the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about 30 percent of the total; 60 percent of that comes from cars and trucks. To reduce emissions, Coloradans would have to drive less.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Lanes weren’t even the right thing to build. Exits reduce congestion. Rarely is a whole city just jammed full of cars on every street. The issue is distribution, and if people are doing 1 mph in a 70 zone, they’ll happily slide out to where the speed limit is 35.