@Oneeyeking@matrix@opal not every place in the USA has a problem, I went my whole life and have almost never been stuck in traffic, and pretty much only when there was an accident or construction. cars just aren't that bad outside dense urban areas.
@matrix@opal Not every country has a traffic problem. It takes me an hour to drive 20 miles. Choosing to avoid toll roads? You're missing my point again. What are you smoking dude?
@opal@matrix It has nothing to do with cost. I'm convinced that they purposefully create traffic on public highways to redirect cars into tolls. Same thing applies with GPS. When there are two routs with same ETA, google always sends me on a Toll road instead of free. Lucrative construction contracts are distributed to political campaign donators.
@Oneeyeking@opal literally every country has a traffic problem regardless if they have toll roads or not You can also just tell your GPS to avoid toll roads
@matrix I live in a pothole capital of the US where the roads are under construction, causing traffic 24/7 12 months per year. Cost justified? Also keep in mind that Roman Empire was 2 thousand years ago and their innovation was just rediscovered. People marvel our modern technology, completely unaware how much past societies achieved with so little.
@Oneeyeking I know about this discovery, but Roman roads weren't built with concrete and we do have self healing concrete and super durable concrete, we just don't build everything with them because we don't feel the cost is justified
@Oneeyeking@opal@matrix just registering my experience for others reading the thread, tehre's an outside perception that the USA is uniformly car hell but it's big and diverse.