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Comments by "JohnDoe" (@JohnDoe-my5ip) on "Alexander Rotmensz" channel.
It’d be easier to rebuild Pripyat than Cleveland at this point. The total and permanent destruction of that city is unfathomable. Look at how long it’s taking the Army Corps of Engineers to clear out the rubble of one relatively small section of highway in Baltimore. It is at least 100x harder to clear out the car sewers choking the life out of Cleveland.
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@ChocoliciousCake as an outside observer, it seems to me that LA is actually making a lot of progress on their metro. Any coherent network appears disconnected while its being built out. People say the same nonsense about bike lanes. Imagine if we pulled the plug on arpanet because it wasn’t the internet yet, and only connected rich nerds at universities… Also, gosh, I wish more metro systems would focus on quality service for a few high demand corridors to start, instead of horribly circuitous routes that only the indigent will ever use. Airports and stadiums are excellent backbone routes to build branch lines off of.
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I gasped at 3:42. But let’s be real for a moment here. As appalling as these before and after photos are, there’s a horse and buggy in this most beautiful photo. It’s not like some philistine developers came in and tore down an architectural marvel in pristine state. The before state was a generation prior. Before the Depression, most likely. Hartford was once a very rich city, but by the urban renewal era, it was very poor. Their society could no longer afford the upkeep of such ornate buildings. All the money had fled to the suburbs. We are going to watch the same cycle lay waste to SF and Manhattan office buildings. Besides plastics and PFAS, most of our creations are very temporary without constant maintenance.
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