Another great piece from Jalopnik.

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    1 year ago

    I bet you the amount of money being poured into new highways is 100x was is being done for bikes.

    You’re a orders of magnitude off. Let’s assume “millions” means 10 million. I’m also going to generously assume 10 million per year, rather than the more likely 10 million over a couple years.

    With those figures highway and street spending is 13,000 more.

    Edit: I just reread and saw NEW construction. I don’t have that figure.

    Edit 2: on secons look, that 130 $bn spending nust be new roads; that looks like insufficient maintaince for the 161,000 mi of highways in the USA, let alone all other roads.