I make American geography-related content on things like the interstate system, suburbs, population, cities & more. I try my best to be non-opinionated and make videos that can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of your level of knowledge.
I think you missed something about CA 58 which you suggested should be an Interstate. Although most of it has recently been ungraded to freeway standards to bypass the towns like Boron and Mojave, there are still a few stretches where it ceases to be a freeway so that some tiny little dirt roads can intersect it, and in some case cross it (although obviously paved for those few feet). These little roads have no other connections to any other roads and would be cut off completely if CA 58 became an Interstate, or just a regular freeway. It would make no sense to build an interchange or anything like for roads that have five cars a day, but, otherwise, those who live on those roads would be cut off completely. So, no freeway for a mile or two every once in a while, and no Interstate.
Let me tell you, if you tell someone from Fairfax they live in a suburb of DC they get really uppity. "I don't live in DC!!!" Uhh yeah you basically do!
Can this density be explained by their destroyed real estate market, making the variable costs of living inside a skyscraper more realistic? That'd be my guess.
we don't need I-787. We don't even need the exit itself. Although it may be faster to get access to US 9W using the Exit 1 interchange. People can still take Exit 21B (NY Thruway). Some people use this highway to access US 9, US 20. It can be the Thruway's Exit 23. People also use it for I-90. Even I-87 meets with I-90 we don't need the highway. Port of Albany. Use NY 32 as I-787 uses NY 32 for Exit 2. How do you get to NY 32? Here are some steps: 1-Go to I-90 using I-87 2- Take exit 6(use north exit) 3-Take exit for Northern Blvd. (then turn right) 4.Turn left on N pearl Street (NY 32) Exit 6 same thing Exit 7E 7W: Use NY 32 for NY 378 Exit 8: Same thing use NY 32. Exit 9E 9W: Use I-87 (Northway) Although its faster, we don't need it.
I-476 in PA really consists of two different highways that were linked together at a later date. The longest portion from Plymouth Meeting, heading north was originally just the northeast extension of the PA turnpike, and as you pointed out did not originally have an interstate designation. This is a toll road. I-476 was built much later and in various stages as a loop around Philly from Plymouth Meeting down to I-95 just south of the airport. This stretch of highway is also known locally as the "Blue Route" which was color of the route option that was chosen when the highway was finally built. In fact the two highways didn't originally connect until the mid-county interchange was built. The signage on the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) where it intersects with I-476 in Montgomery County has never been updated and still states "476 North Plymouth Meeting" (the original terminus of the highway) rather "476 North Allentown" or "476 North Scranton" as it should state.
Enjoyed your video, nice job, very informative! Here in the Boston area I-495 is the bypass for the very outer suburbs in what locals call Metro West. I-95 runs as a bypass for the immediate suburbs on what we locals still call Route 128 which was completed in the 1950's as a bypass for the city. I-95 was originally going to go right through Boston on a project known as the Southwest Corridor. That project was squashed due to fierce local opposition in the 1970's and most of the highway project was scapped and developed into mass transit. The rerouting of the MBTA (The T) Orange Line was completed in 1987 and this line to Forrest Hills runs on what would have been I-95. While I-95 links the Northeast Corridor, Boston is the only major city that it does not run through. People here don't even call it I-95 which technically it is, it's just called 128.
Michigan thumb area resident here. Yeah, it's absolutely America's autobahn, well, at least to me anyways because i live in a rural area. People drive like they have extra lives, and you basically have to do the same so you can both keep up and not be read ended. No cops at all, there's hardly enough room for cops on the shoulders, and the highway is so busy to where they can't catch everyone. It's definitely both my favorite and least favorite part about the metro Detroit area. Definitely worth checking it out, only if you dare.
When 130 was first opened the road was not used that much. However now 130, in the Austin bypass portion, is at times congested enough that driving at the posted 80MPH is not possible. I have noticed that large trucks using this road has increased a lot. Development along 130 has exploded, Austin maybe moving more north and west but that hasn't stopped development along 130.The cost to use the toll road doesn't appear to be a deterrent. The savings in time to use 130 varies during the day and can be a lot during rush hours and when accidents happen on I35. Signs on I35 compares the time it takes to use I35 and the 130 bypass. I35 through Austin is a mess at the best of times.
Manchester, and Nashua NH are basically Mass Lite, if the list includes Richmond, VA it definitely includes them, and you missed Springfield,MA just 10-15 minutes north of Hartford but a different area again with its own history.
There were two college freshmen who were roommates. One was a CS major, the other was an Aerospace engineering major. They said “we’re gonna change the world!” A few years after they both graduated, One is working for a soulless tech corporation and the other is working for a defense contractor. Considering the counties they live in, I wouldn’t feel too bad for them.
Dutch road design encourages thinking and engagement. Instead of wide, straight open roads that technically don't prevent you from speeding in a straight line (until you smash through an intersection because you ignored a red light), traffic infrastructure that demands your constant attention with more "obstacles" (narrower roads; multiple curves; roundabouts; raised pedestrian crossings; etc.) means you're keyed into your handling of your vehicle at all times. Stop lights, traffic signs, and road markings can only do so much: they don't physically prevent you from ignoring them. Adding more dynamics to the actual road itself makes the difference.
I believe that the plan was to run I -180 to Peoria on the west side of the Illinois River. And yes it goes into Hennipen instead because of the steel mill. And ends. Because if you look on the west side of the Illinois River Illinois Route 29 is a interstate type road for a few miles before it goes down to being a 2 lane highway.
It’s Howard County, Maryland, not Virginia (your graphic is wrong). As a Howard County resident I can assure you we are not part of the DC Metro area. We are part of the Baltimore metro area.
The "Induced demand" thing is pretty much bullshit. There's no new demand created, it's only "induced" because vehicles now have a better route to drive! So then traffic is reduced on other routes, or on surface streets, which is a huge benefit of highways. And a better metric than congestion for a highway's performance would be throughout. A project can still be beneficial if it increases the road's capacity, even it congestion doesn't get better.
@@HankChangand none of them would know what to do with a screwdriver. HVAC tech here who does alright for himself and can afford to live in Fairfax County.
Every single one of the numbers in this list is wrong. NYC has over 316 buildings over 150 M(over a 100 hundred feet higher than the criteria) Chicago has 138 over 150 Meters, Miami has 62 over 150 meters(over 130 over the 328 feet threshold that I can find) , Houston has 41 over 150 Meters and at least 70 over 328 feet that I can find, Los Angeles has 30 over 150 Meters and at least 60 over 328 feet. How did you get your numbers?
pretty much everyone ive talked to in oklahoma is befuddled by this concept. the city has poor infrastructure on most fronts, there's miles and miles of already unused metro land and buildings that will continue to go unoccupied, there's tornadoes, hail, and the fact that REGULAR apartments in metro areas where you feel like you won't get stabbed only START at like $900/month and even then you'll still have roaches all over - how much will these cost?? insane concept and i hope it gets vetoed somewhere in the process
