BostonTrainGuy
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In 2021, we should be shrinking or removing highways, not taking private land for them. There are much simpler solutions to BU giving up land and having to partially demolish buildings in order to preserve an 8 lane highway and 4 lane "parkway."
I know it's all the rage lately to promote downsizing, eliminating, and calming (slowing down) every major roadway you can, but we simply can't keep choking the roadways and expect all will be fine. Not everyone can take the T to work. Businesses need things delivered reliably on time. Work crews need to move around the city to complete projects.
Traffic congestion wastes fuel and increases pollution. Road rage is increasing in numbers and severity. There is no magic wand. People still have to get to work and commerce still has to flow through the area. It's easy to say we should eliminate this road or that but there are consequences to making the area more and more difficult to transit.
Boston traffic has been getting worse every year and it is now the second most congested urban area in the country. Making things worst is not the best course of action. I know many here will attack me on this issue, and I do understand the livability argument, but as the area gets more and more gridlocked and travel times get longer and longer, the negative consequences have to be considered.
Researchers at Texas A&M University ranked traffic congestion in urban areas across the country, and found that the New York-Newark metropolitan area was the worst, followed by Boston, Mass.; Houston, Texas; and finally the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California region.