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Why Boston's Big Dig Failed (Patreon)

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2022-09-01 14:02:00
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2026-10
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When you replace a highway with a larger highway and expect better results you're a fool.

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Why Boston's Big Dig Failed

MassDOT grabbed onto MBTA as the ship was sinking. The Armchair Urbanist Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLhycIWhOLttikNg2Z1aJvGPoqijpGs9qh My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alanthefisher Discord here: https://discord.gg/urbanist My Twitter where I shitpost: https://twitter.com/alanthefisher Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alanthefisher Merch: https://armchair-urbanist-2.creator-spring.com/ Intro was narrated by: https://twitter.com/4ft8n1half Other cool people: https://www.instagram.com/segregation_by_design/ https://www.instagram.com/cars.destroyed.our.cities/ https://www.youtube.com/c/MilesinTransit Music: Mechwarrior 4 OST - Push Vulfpeck - The Cup Stacker Mechwarrior 4 OST - Core Vulfpeck - Fugue State Cory Wong - Starfire Verdi's Messa Da Requiem - Movement II Vulfpeck - Newsbeat Time Stamps: 0:00 Operation Dunkin 1:07 Highway History 2:31 The Big Dig 5:03 The Real Failure 6:41 Why MBTA is Current Bad 8:00 What should we do? 10:03 Outro

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Thaddeus Wojack

Oh man. That MechWarrior 3 Mission Briefing intro and 4 soundtrack. All Systems: Nominal. Let's do some Urban Renewal. Funnily enough, despite appearances in the games (for largely gameplay reasons), many cities on the many habitable worlds in the Battletech universe tend to be transit-oriented. "Not all planets caught Terra's 20th-century "car craze," and railways are more common than autos on many worlds." Source: A Time of War; Gamemastering Guide - Touring the Stars: Travel" We could infer that private automobiles would have been prohibitively expensive to transport to newly-settled and developing worlds throughout the pre-Star League eras, or too costly to justify mass production locally given other pressing industrial demands, and as such governors and planners prioritized TOD. Only on the most-developed or richest worlds, and where settler culture demand it, would private automobiles widely exist.

Alan Fisher

I guess I need to read up on more Battletech lore now haha