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Progress: the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas, spans across 26 lanes making it the worlds widest. The freeway is broken down in to 12 main lanes (six in each direction), eight feeder lanes. (lemmy.world)

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[–] Mighty@lemmy.world 108 points 4 months ago (4 children)

One more lane, bro

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I swear bro, just one more, please

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Worked every time so far, I swear!

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

Double it and pass the problem to the next generation

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Just one more and it'll all be fixed, trust me bro

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago (19 children)

Everybody in this photo could fit in like 4 buses

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 4 months ago

See, this is what AI was actually made for. 14 buses.

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[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 35 points 4 months ago

THAT'S MY AMERICA 🇺🇸 🦅🔥🔥🔥 ONE MORE LANE DOESN'T FIX IT MY A$$ LOOK AT THIS AND TELL ME IT ISN'T WORKING 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Counting the service road is kind of cheating. In built up areas in Texas they're de facto city streets that happen to exactly mirror the freeway. They have intersections, lights, businesses, etc.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Yep. Texas does that because of a state law that says any landowner with property adjacent to a highway has a right to access that highway.

[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All of that, for a traffic jam. Imagine turning 4 lanes in a train track carrying 500 person every 5 min in both directions and one lane in a bike lane. It's still 20 lanes for car, but you suddenly have decent public transport which would be safer and faster than that gigantic traffic jam

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or just a decent bus system. You could replace 50 cars on that highway with a single bus.

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[–] sandalbucket@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If I count the roads off the sides, on ramps and off ramps, etc, the highest I can get is 18 lanes. Is this the photo of where it’s 26 wide? I can’t seem to find it.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I can get to 22 in the foreground of the pic with some lanes underneath others with the flyover ramps.

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[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

And traffic STILL sucks in Houston

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago (17 children)

This is why traffic sucks. Super highways don't reduce traffic, they create it.

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[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I just came back from tokyo after doing the JR pass travel to view the entire country. I fucking HATE CAR TRAVEL. taking the Narita express to the airport was so painless. Got back to IAH bush Int'ctl and it was a complete clusterfuck trying to get an Uber. Not to mention it was quite literally twice the price the express line train was. And that was one of the more expensive limited expresses too.

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[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I hate cars and highways so much.

I wish we had good mass transit like Europe.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Everyone always disparages the cost of public transport but how much does it cost to maintain these highways every year? A few dozen/hundred billion dollars across the country?

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fwiw, feeder lanes probably shouldn't be counted in Texas because they're basically glorified city streets. Businesses can have entrances and exits on frontage roads, so there's not really anything special about them except that they have a slightly higher speed limit (50~60mph vs 40~45mph) and they have immediate access to the highway.

An interesting article to go along with this.

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[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

We getting out of the traffic jam with this one 🇺🇸🦅🔥🇺🇸

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hear me out: stack it vertically. It'll be great, I promise

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[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anything but a fucking train...

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Am I the only one not seeing 26 landed here?

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

[–] knacht1@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Try crossing that road froggy.

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