Honestly i hope the double decker highway never happens. But it probably will because its Florida, despite the potential to use the money to convert dangerous stroads into safe streets.
The double decker in Miami is already underway and it's already behind schedule by a few years due to Covid & the the shortages afterward. This is what the State wanted and not necessarily Miami.
Seriously? Take a trip to Miami & you'll retract your comment. If it helps relieve traffic, then why complain? As far as local streets, it's better conditions than most other cities. Chill out
@@andrewclarke8163 Unlike Europe, most people here in the US drive cars, and so projects with the biggest impact will all be related to driving and are much more useful imo
The Texas bullet train technology will be great when they actually do it. Same thing with the California highspeed rail project. Will also be great when they actually finish it.
@@SmartFactsCentral1 Yes, i agree. When i see trafax on the news showing people sitting in traffic or thousands and thousands of people sitting around in airports stranded due to cancellations and delays during the holidays and travel seasons, it's definitely time to install highspeed bullet train technology to improve infrastructure and economic growth.
double decker in miami is waste of money bcs that like for that money u could build a fr metro and u just do more shitty highway saying its good but then itzs going to be mid or shit
That $840 Million could have been used to expand Metrorail across Biscayne Bay and connect to Miami Beach instead of clogging the MacArthur Causeway with even more traffic that it can barely support now.
@@SmartFactsCentral1 Yes I grew up in Miami in the early 80s when Metrorail first started. It was supposed to be 66 Miles long instead of the current 25 miles but Reagan cut the funding for its expansion saying it was cheaper to transport people in a Limo!
The future of USA, that was promised a decade ago. These are developing countries projects but its great USA to if it happened. Good luck American long yime coming.
Why no mention of Florida's *privately* *funded* high speed rail between Miami and Orlando? There are proposals to extend it to Tampa, probably through Lakeland, although that phase will use federal and state funds.
It tops out at 125 mph on new track and 110 mph on upgraded track, so it doesn't meet the definition of high speed rail. It's also diesel and the new section is single track. Texas and California are building double track electrified lines that can sustain speeds of 200 mph or better.
@@JBS319 California will never finish their boondoggle (which is already insanely over budget) and connects the major metro areas of Bakersfield, Fresno, and Merced. Further, the projected extensions that are actually useful (The Bay Area and LA/OC segments) are blended like Florida's existing trackage, with a projected top speed of 110 MPH. The Texas project is vaporware right now; we'll see if they come up with something workable, and how they'll finance it. The Brightline's Miami-Orlando segment is all privately financed, which is an important consideration; any cost overruns will not become taxpayer obligations.
Brightline's L.A. to Vegas HSR has passed environmental review and is scheduled for groundbreaking at the end of this year once funds are released from the fed infrastructure act.
I hate it that they are still building infrastructure to expand the car-dependant status quo instead of moving away from it. More highways and road widening is going to cancel out mass transit when it comes to carbon footprints.
“The Bills released new photos of their proposed stadium” … to be fair, you did include two photos of the proposed stadium, but you also had photos of the Vikings Stadium, the Rams Stadium… so I’m impressed: you filled almost 2 minutes of content without showing us a damn new thing 😂
I think the big one coming probably in th3 second half of 2024 is the opening of the long-overdue Gordie Howe International Bridge, which will replace the decrepit Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. More importantly, the new bridge directly connects to Ontario Highway 401, which means faster travel between Detroit, Toronto and Montreal.
Hi! Thank you for the reaction! I love to hear what you tink about it :) I agree its important to get the ability to travel faster ones the bridge is done!
They tried the double decker highway in the past and it was a miserable failure! It was so miserable that they tore them down. They realize that all it did was encourage more people to drive or to make unnecessary trips. Now traffic is not the environmental hazard that it once were.
@@SmartFactsCentral1 I love the idea off it adding a satellite downtown not to far from Downtown Chicago as well as bringing life to the north branch of the river. I’m just imagining taking a water taxi from navy pier all the way to Lincoln Yards.
Dear god man, if you are going to do a video on the states, learn how to pronounce the states. The ‘s’ in Illinois is silent. You got it wrong in two different items in your list. You also managed to somehow mangle the pronunciation of Houston in the #1 spot.
Whomever typed out the script for the robotic voiceover needs to learn how Americans speak because it's really bad the way you have it worded. For example, NOBODY in this country is going to say "the I-three hundred ninety-five".
The state of Illinois is not pronounced with an ‘s’. Get that basic fact correct, if you cannot pronounce words correctly how can we know you have all your facts correct.
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Dallas has five supertalls (skyscrapers planed; none will be built; let alone a most needed super lake(water!!! for the Trinity River; so do you think a bullet train will be built between Dallas and Houston; it's like Cobb Parkway in Atlanta never being expanded to five needed lanes on each side to Emerson, with light rail going down the middle elevated; should of been built before the 1996 Olympics; a "bullet train" in dallas or bust...its technology is all ready surpassed by two decades; you make the call.
It’s in Metro Austin. Taylor is a tiny town and pretty much unknown to anyone outside the Austin area. And yes you’re probably right about people in Taylor being referred to as Austinites. Taylor residents call themselves rednecks I believe.
Bullet Trains are cool but I still maintain that they are faaar too expensive for the services they provide. In the case of California they are investing hundreds of billions into trying to get just one working! Maybe when technology allows for them to be cheaper they'll be worth it but for now I'd rather spend money elsewhere
@@SmartFactsCentral1 I just told you! I want the roads fixed. Why are they not fixed? Why are American roads so horribly bad? Where do all of our road taxes go?
@@rustymason3860road taxes only pay half what maintenance costs. The other half comes from income taxes. We need alternatives to driving like buses, trains, bike routes and mixed use neighborhoods that require less driving. With less use we could better afford to maintain the roads we have then they wouldn’t be so fallen apart when we drive.
@SmartFactsCentral1 personally, it seems like a more enjoyable way of travel, the sightseeing is worth it for train rides. But aside from personal reasons, i think it's safer, sustainable, and cheaper. It would benefit more smaller businesses and local economies. Having a cheaper mode of transportation that takes half the time a car does causes a better flow of foot traffic because people would want to live in a big city but visit their favorite small towns more often. Plus, what if i lived in seattle but got a job in Sacramento? A bullet train could easily make that commute
I would demolish La Guardia airport so they can continue to build more towers in Harlem and Upper Manhattan. And around Queens. I hate that airport cause of that!
@@SmartFactsCentral1 House-ton! Kilometers-H! 😂 If the computer can’t pronounce them, you have to write them out phonetically. Hews-tin. Kilometers per hour.
We need to make extant housing affordable and we need public housing as the failures of the market have proven with the scattered, shattered lives of millions upon millions of Americans here in the US. There is so much empty housing serving as financial assets in investment portfolios of hedge fund and permanent capital cretins instead of as direly needed shelter for Americans. These unnecessary anonymous office buildings and homogeneously hideous petrochemical yuppie kennel condos intentionally priced out of financial reach of the workforce aren’t making housing more accessible by the developers of mediocrity (ever unhelpful and undesirable to the taxpayer residents of e.g. Portland) by “adding to supply” or affordability, but to the contrary and our collective detriment, are directly causing housing to be more expensive and , of course, less attainable as they artificially inflate the market that then causes cost of living to skyrocket. Actual houses should be affordable for everyone as a societal standard with an economy that isn’t allowed to rob people of it. The supply and demand oversimplification is a known false narrative misrepresentation frequently used as a disingenuous ploy of parasitic, societally toxic, necrotic price gouging corporate slumlords and profiteering developers of blight who knock down our cherished structures and affordable housing stock to then exploit tenants mercilessly. Simply building more just isn’t the answer whether the soft handed nut-jobs of unearned wealth that comprise the plutocracy like it or not. We cannot outbuild the greed of rentier capitalism. Allowing society to regress into another gilded age by allowing feudalism to exist in modern day America is pathetic and we need to evolve beyond an economy that cancerously consumes society. The entire city could be nothing but the tacky garbage housing being forced on us at infinite stories high and it’d still be unaffordable to most real people. Housing is supposed to shelter people, not exploitative profits. We need rent caps. Housing, in a humane and sane society, is for people having homes; the manifest purpose of housing is not for speculative investing, permanent capital, private equity or any of the other euphemistic titles of shady schemes and scams predatory sociopaths cloak their misdeeds masquerading as respectable careers under like so much bordello make-up. It’s errant and always socially destructive to allow societal necessities to be commodified and exploited as consumerist products.
@@SmartFactsCentral1 The very low elevation in The State of Florida, will soon yield to the ocean. Florida is 'enjoying' it's "Boomer Heyday," after which will come economic and climatic catastrophe. My generation don't care--particularly the greedy Republican type.
@@highlymedicated2438 That is the absolutely perfect answer as to why the entire human enterprise will end in abject misery. The indigenous peoples know that human beings own nothing. We rent. (The planet is not our toy.)
@@SmartFactsCentral1 I don't track mega projects in the USA specifically but when you create a list that lists the Texas HSR project as the number one project when it's still basically vaporware and doesn't even include the California HSR project, which started construction in 2015, is a very questionable list. The CAHSR is set to be the largest mega project in the history of the USA. So that single omission makes your list invalid. The other example is not including the multi-year expansion and renovation of the Los Angeles airport. An airport project that is larger that the one on your list. So there you go, that's at least two that should have been on your list and that's just off the top of my head.
@@SmartFactsCentral1 On second read of my previous comment, I might have come off a little harsh. I apologize if it came across as such. Another mega project I know very little of but has been at varying stages of development is the Delta Conveyance Project also in California. It seems similar to one on your list. Thanks for being willing to take a second look.
