Comments by "MarloSoBalJr (Gaming)" (@MarloSoBalJr) on "The Simple Genius of the Interstate Highway System" video.

@comentaristax9804 It's bittersweet because domestic & military cargo transport is of the utmost importance but when governments start pouring billions just to widen said interstates for 9-to-5 commuters then the priorities need to be focused on where to build proper rail networks to/from those suburbs to the city centre. Not the "beat a dead horse" concept that continue to fail annually. Maryland just finished an 10-year project to widen a five mile stretch of I-695 by 2.5 lanes (altogether!) and traffic hasn't improved... funny enough, it's because they focused on the wrong section of I-695 and not the junction @ I-70 which is the burden of west coast traffic onto the highway
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@FireEmeralds76 Houston and Dallas are predominantly Republican cities and you gonna tell me their highways meandering through those cities are cute?... Just curious
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Yup!... and it is huge importance for many. Anytime I take the 4 hour journey from Baltimore to Pittsburgh & back, Breezewood is the go-to scheduled stop
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@nehankaranch2149 Baltimore's "Highway to Nowhere" and "Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Westport"... Look it up and you'll see the racism not only only on blacks but poverish whites as well.
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Eisenhower: "WHOA! WHOA!! Why is there an interstate running near the White House!?!" Congress: "Oh! You know... Sharon & I just moved 30 miles into Manassas, VA, so we needed to build a highway for us and a thousand others" Eisenhower: *insert 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' outro*
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The "White Flight" method which was done in Baltimore's Harlem Park with what was suppose to be I-70. Scare the whites out; move the afros in... then simultaneously render the community "useless" and plow a mile long highway that has contributed to Baltimore's economic disparity. As of 2021, they have plans to demolish the Highway to Nowhere but only when a bill is passed.
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Interstates are beneficial for domestic cargo but once that necessity is hindered by 9-to-5 surbanites who keep moving further & further away from city centres because said previous suburb became "too inner city-like" then before you know it, you just have snowball effect. The highways aren't even designed to their initial purpose anymore which was for "military & cargo" transport purposes. What any good is the interstate if the cargo and military fleet are stuck in traffic?
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If done somewhat right like in Baltimore or Pittsburgh... surprisingly, it's beneficial. But done wrong like in Cincinnati, you'll see why Robert Moses is a hated man.
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@ben.taylor Baltimore is an example of the right way to do it & the wrong way... *Interstate 95 goes through the city centre but only along a stretch of what was simply forest and a chain of railroads (which are now under the highway) then along the waterway (10:33 = I-95 & I-395 Spur junction) and finally through industrial sections without damaging the local neighborhoods; *What they did wrong was with MD-295; I-895 and I-70 a.k.a. "Highway to Nowhere" as those were built through neighborhoods of all ethnicity w/o concern or Afros in Harlem Park (I-70); Latinos in Greektown (I-895) and even poverish white residents also in Greektown (I-895) & Westport (MD-295)
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@ThatRandomBeast But, what defines "cheap land?" You could build a highway along or atop a railroad yet their intentions were to destroy the impoverish sectors they deem an eyesore even though people live there. So I guess the Embarcadero Freeway in SF was cheap land?... I-95 & I-83 interchange in Baltimore "was" gonna bulldoze Fort McHenry in the 1960s, is that cheap land?
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