Two days after opening the grand new inner city Autobahn in Berlin it's been temporarily shut down due to congestion (www.tagesspiegel.de)

submitted 3 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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Local authority cites the reason as a 500m long tunnel that can under no circumstance having traffic stand still in it.

The Autobahn LLC has not answered any inquiries as to how they plan to not make this happen after summer school break is over

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[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

just one more lane bro

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

The A100 here cost about 3 million eurodollars per km and it didn't help but once we get to building the A101 slip road that costs 4 million eurodollars per kilometer surely we may solve this problem

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

Inner city highways are the wunder waffen of urbanism. Expensive and ineffective while putting public funds into the hands of contractors.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

tunnel that can under no circumstance having traffic stand still in it

confusion

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing there wasn't any money left for air circulation ion the quadrillion dollar budget

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Precision German costcutting

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

wow it's almost like highways going through cities is a terrible idea and we have a hundred years of data on that fact

[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

if only there existed a more effective mode of transportation...

[-] ProjectCyberSin@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Only 6 lanes? They need at least 24 to solve traffic forever.

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 months ago

Shut it down foreverrrrr

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

It's been open for 2 days and already screwed the pooch, the only option left is to turn 6 lanes of autobahn into the Wuppertal Hochbahntrasse, keep 2 lanes open for cyclists, pedestrians and such and make the other ones shops and bars

[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Building Saudi Arabia’s “The Line” but it’s just every two lane interstate where one side is left as road and the other is turned into never ending connected businesses