While the article talks about the legal proceedings it doesn't mention why anyone supports or opposes this tunnel. Like there isn't even one sentence about justifications. Shame on you BBC
This whole community is about reducing the overall dependance on cars and changing the rules around them. No one here is advocating for more driver deaths, we are advocationg for safer streets that reduce deaths everywhere, drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, kids walking to school, we all deserve safe streets.
@li10@mondoman712 All the driving video games made driving feel like playing a video game. I grew up playing games like Simpsons Road Rage and Crazy Taxi because I wasn’t allowed to have first person shooter games. All that did was normalize violence of a kind a kid raised by middle class suburban liberals was a lot more likely to commit.
I ran over people all the time in simpsons hit and run, never once did I feel like I'd want to do it in real life. Never did it make news about accidents less shocking because "yellow man in game bounce off car".
A big part of that problem could be solved by properly seperating bikes from cars and allowing as little points of conflict as possible. Then at least car ragers are surrounded by just cars which have some protection for their occupants, and cyclists are surrounded by other cyclists which can hopefully leave the area of a rager. Id still rather someone ram me with a bicycle than a car.
Even if I'm just out for a walk, on side residential roads with no sidewalks but no traffic, people will swerve toward you instead of around you. At an intersection by the interstate and a Greenaway, I get cussed out about twice a month while crossing on the pedestrian signal cause it holds them up for 10 seconds I guess.
On a scooter, drivers flat out play chicken and try to spook you into wrecking.
I never experience that when cycling in Europe, only in the UK but then Europeans don't have that culture war bullshit of "the war on motorists" that's leaned into heavily by the right wing press.
If that's the case, I dunno from which third world hellhole you come from. In civilized countries, you're facing big boy penalties if you injure someone while driving.
The United States is a first-world hellhole, thankyouverymuch!
And it will 100% remain so no matter what happens, except maybe if Trump takes over -- not because of him fucking up the country, but because of him withdrawing us from NATO.
In Germany we say "If you want to murder someone, do it with a car". It's infuriating how car drivers get away with it or get incredibly light sentences for maiming or killing people by using a car here.
A two-mile road tunnel past Stonehenge could cost £250,000 per metre of road - as it is revealed costs so far amount to £166m.The scheme, which was approved by the previous Conservative government, has been met with a number of legal challenges from Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS).A Freedom of Information request showed the total planning spend up to the end of May was £166,230,578.The BBC has been told that £287,605 of public money has so far been spent on legal fees.
John Adams, chair of Stonehenge Alliance, said it would "make it arguably one of the most expensive roads in the world".
National Highways, who said the tunnel will remove the sight and sound of traffic passing the historic site, contracted Wessex Archaeology to search the proposed route, focused largely on the two tunnel portals within the World Heritage Site.It hired more than 100 archaeologists, in a contract costing £4.6m to date, to start a year of digging from last spring but the work was halted because of the latest legal challenge.SSWHS argues that cancelling the tunnel scheme would save "at least £2.5bn", having already cost £160m in the planning phase.Mr Adams said he had worked out the cost of the scheme based on the total budget.
"During the election campaign, the new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, failed to commit to the scheme and told the BBC that his government would wait for the legal process to end before making a decision about the future of the tunnel.
Planning permission for the scheme, which is backed by the National Trust and Wiltshire Council and involves overhauling eight miles of major road from London to South West England, was first approved in November 2020, despite Planning Inspectorate officials saying it would cause "permanent, irreversible harm" to the area.The decision was later quashed by the High Court in 2021 after a campaign.However, the project, which Highways England said will reduce and cut journey times, was again given the green light by the DfT in July 2023.The scheme was later put on hold after another High Court challenge in December, with campaigners arguing the legal process by the then Conservative government was wrong.A judicial review dismissed their challenge in February and said the Department for Transport had followed the correct process.The outcome of the judicial review was believed to be incorrect by campaigners, and after appealing the decision, were granted approval to challenge it in May.The next stage of the legal campaign begins on Monday at the Court of Appeal, with campaigners arguing the approval was wrong in law and are challenging a dismissal of their application to overturn it in a judicial review.Mr Adams said: "This is not a hearing about the design or the merits of the road itself, but about whether the Minister was properly briefed.
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Used to live in a very urban place where biking/walking was always super convenient, and now I've moved out to the suburbs. Walking the dog or recreationally is good because there are lots of like paths around, but all my destinations are too far to conveniently walk. Most are like 5-6 minutes by bike though, when they would be the same travel time by car, or longer cause on a bike I can cut through some pathways. Seems wild to me that I'm one of very few people using these paths as actual transportation instead of just recreationally. One downside for my biking around the suburbs, is that all the destinations are only set up for car access. For example to get to my grocery store that backs onto the residential area, I still have to go out on the main road and access that way like all the cars. Would be so nice if these plaza type destinations had a pathway connection to the residential area so I could skip this one unpleasant part of my ride.
Guess what the last commune I lived in was going to become?
So, I visited another one to maybe move into and asked around. They said it was also going to be turned into one.
What's so hilarious about it is that everyone says it in such a matter of fact way. Like: yes, my home and that of my friends will be destroyed, our social group will break apart, and our cultural events that see a lot of visitors will also be a goner. But ya, it's gonna be a parking lot!
And to think that the only unrealistic thing in Victor Vivisector's characterization was that his enemies were furry teenagers (for those curious, look up Furry Force on youtube)
Why the hell are they widening it? Wait, I bet I know: they want less traffic! I bet they think more lanes = less cars as if the population will always remain constant. If they want less traffic, they should build infrastructure for other modes of transport; but I guess everyone reading this already knows this. Funny that the people making these decisions don't...
The purpose of the project is to reduce congestion by increasing capacity, improving connectivity of the highway system, and preserving acceptable facility operation.
Yep... imbeciles.
Construction Cost: $126,860,000
How much does yearly maintenance of a train track cost?
@jabathekek@Flax_vert “preserving acceptable facility operation” = continue killing & injuring the same number of people we currently are, or increasing it a bit since there will be more people driving on the expanded facility
99 is quickly becoming a majorly trafficked freeway as the Central Valley is rapidly growing due to cheap land, well paying jobs and… a new high speed rail being built right alongside 99. It’s literally all the news about California's “massive waste of money” high speed rail. I’m planning on high speed rail growing the valleys commerce and output due to ease of travel. However 99 is insanely small and has tons of rough patches and cracked roads due to decades of neglect.
126 million is small potatoes in this state. Especially when it’s likely that state, federal, and cities/counties are also kicking in money for this operation. Madera, Merced, Fresno, that whole stretch is growing like crazy right now.
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