Gurre

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So the RTA's own modelling showed the Rozelle Interchange would be a traffic disaster—but generating more toll road trips for Transurban was more important. in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
[–] Gurre@mastodon.nu 1 points 6 months ago

@shermozle @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
Same here in Stockholm. Now that the 21 km tunneled motorway ringroad is nearing completion they're adding several widenings of connecting motorways etc as separate projects even though even in the planning documents they're explicitly consequences of the big new motorway "bypass".

So the RTA's own modelling showed the Rozelle Interchange would be a traffic disaster—but generating more toll road trips for Transurban was more important. in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
[–] Gurre@mastodon.nu 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars
And the response from drivers to all this will still be that there needs to be more motorways built. Always is, without fail.