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[–] 7 points 2 years ago

Aren't there any hobos under there?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    The really fun bit is that the US doesn't need more room to house people. There are more vacant apartments than there are homeless people as is, but nobody can pay the rents.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    You compare a city center with an interchange close to the city limit. You will see stuff like that in Europe too, especially motorways that separate cities from their sprawling neighbors. Houston has interchanges that look way more problematic.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Build stack interchange only in cities skylines, not in real world

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Comparing apples to pears. Nice.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How so? It's showing that with all that space the interchange is taking up you can house 30000+ people.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    There are enough highway interchanges in Italy too.

    Not every ground that is suitable for streets, is also suitable for living.

    The cost between those both are not comparable.

    Usage of land is (at least in Italy) carefully determined to fulfill societies needs. Most people prefer to live somewhere, where infrastrcture already exists instead of building up a ghost town without anything nearby.

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  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    This isn't a great argument. There is so much open undeveloped space in the US that could be used to house people. This interchange isn't taking space away from anyone.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    this interchange is in the city of Houston. of course it's taking space away.

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  • [+] -20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Those giant empty fields right below it are even larger...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you propose they do with that space? Adding literally any way to access it necessarily interferes with the roads around it and makes the entire project pointless.

    Even ignoring that obvious problem, you can't use it for housing since there's nothing there and it's surrounded by high-speed traffic. Can't build shops or other amenities there since nobody stops and it's surrounded by high-speed traffic. You definitely can't put livestock there.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    That wasn't the argument I was responding to. The initial argument was that the interchange was taking away space that could be used to house people. Simply replacing the interchange with housing would cause even larger problems than developing the empty land around it.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This interchange isn't taking space away from anyone.

    depends on how myopic is your definition of "anyone" is

    "space" isn't for humans only. roads are taking monstrous amounts of space

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  • [+] -17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Humans won the planet, they can do as they please. (Including damn themselves, but all belongs to us)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    if you want to provoke, you should try to write something less immature.

    go play with your xbox

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not being edgy, the planet and all consequences belong to us.

    Is there another dominant species around I haven't met yet?

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