The turning lane to nowhere
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 11:34am | by cmarohn
What happens when the engineers designing our rural highways simply apply standards without bothering to consider the context of the space? Sadly, a more pertinent question would be the opposite: what would happen if they did bother to look outside of their right-of-way?
The following video was shot in Northern Minnesota about four miles outside of Grand Rapids. The mindless waste of money it so clearly depicts is endemic in a transportaion funding system that is rewarded for moving cars, not creating valuable places.
Next time someone talks to you about a society that is living beyond its means, be reminded of this.
Video compliments of SID.tv -- See It Differently television -- coming in 2012 from Strong Towns.
Comments
Can you provide more specific
Can you provide more specific info about where this stretch of roadway is? I'd like to check out a google map.
Unfortunately, I don't think
Unfortunately, I don't think he knows either (as the comments on the Youtube webpage suggest). Hwy 169 has a 3-lane segment to the south but also has numerous driveways so it's not that one either. Hwy 2 is either 2 lanes or 4 lanes, not 3. Hwy 6 doesn't have a 3-lane segment anywhere in the area. The only road in the Grand Rapids area I can think of that meets the description is CSAH 63 in Cohasset, but the horizontal curviture is all wrong so it can't be that road. So I'm at a loss as to where this video was shot.