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Birmingham. Despite having an exceptionally low population density (save for a small handful of inner suburbs), it has some pretty bad traffic for a city of its population. The infrastructure is outdated and probably isn't meant to serve 1M+ on a daily basis. Outside of the main interstate arteries there just aren't a lot of other ways of getting to where you need to go. And many of the more heavily-traveled roads are two-lane when they should be four-lane, four-lane when they should be six-lane, etc. The morning/evening rushes are disproportionately bad because a single accident can cripple the flow of traffic, and accidents unfortunately are pretty commonplace. It's not a huge metro, but it's getting large enough to at least warrant the consideration of alternate methods of transportation such as light rail, but people would rather spend their money on season football tickets than to invest in better methods of transportation. They seem perfectly content sitting in traffic for hours and hours a week in their gas-guzzling pickups and SUVs. It can sometimes take an hour just to move three or four miles if there's a bad enough accident.
Detroit Michigan lacks any redeeming value. Razing it and replacing it with a new city would be a big win for that region. Such a valuable and strategic location for a city to be wasted on that place. This poll is no contest, Detroit Michigan is the winner.
You just lost all credibility, Detroit has some of the most amazing skyscrapers from the early 20th century, and a very interesting history. What has Detroit done to you to for you to be so bitter and hateful towards the city? Troll!
If I was the Chairman of the U.S. Department of Transportation, I'd write PennDOT a blank check to overhaul some of the highways in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
This. The only problem I have with my hometown has to do with public transportation. Here is what I would do:
Highways
I-95: I would love to see I-95 entering a tunnel between Oregon Avenue and Porter Street in South Philly. It should then emerge from said tunnel around Arch Street. Instead of just opening up the waterfront between Market and Spruce, it should be open between Market Street and at least Snyder Avenue.
I-76: The Schuylkill Expressway is too narrow, and understandably so: where else could we place it? It would be awesome to have it widened, but it would be an engineering challenge. South of South Street, I believe that the Schuylkill Expressway should have been kept on the left bank of the Schuylkill River. Almost no one would be affected if the Schuylkill Expressway was to have been moved to the left bank of the river.
I-676/US 30: There is no reason why the Vine Street Expressway should remain uncovered. It should be covered up until 9th Street. This way, we could return Logan Circle into a true square. We could also create some green space. The interchange between the Vine Street Expressway and the Ben Franklin Bridge should also be reworked so that there is no need to exit onto 5th Street.
Philadelphia International Airport: PHL needs its facilities expanded. Its current runways need to be extended and an additional one needs to be constructed. This way, we can handle more traffic.
-I love the history of the refinery in South Philly and realize that it is an economic engine to the region, but it acts as a turn-off to people coming in through PHL.
-The inner roads of the Ben Franklin Parkway should be converted to green space.
How did Orlando miss this poll? It's largely a steaming pile of poor urban planning full of half empty strip centers and inadequate road infrastructure.
NONE of them; they are simply the end product of uncountable human interactions, and everything there is there (for the time being, at least) as a result of those decisions. Like it or not, it's the end product of our activity, and those who daydream of "change" are simply busybodies frustrated by their own desire for power -- and lack of reasoning.
When I want your opinion in my life, I'll ask for it.
NONE of them; they are simply the end product of uncountable human interactions, and everything there is there (for the time being, at least) as a result of those decisions. Like it or not, it's the end product of our activity, and those who daydream of "change" are simply busybodies frustrated by their own desire for power -- and lack of reasoning.
When I want your opinion in my life, I'll ask for it.
You know this is pretend right? Nobody is suggesting these cities be leveled and began again.
Ain't nothing wrong with using a little creative imagination
I chose other : Birmingham ,Al. I wish the architecture of the city resembled that of Birmingham, England. I think it would have been cool to have another Alabama city outside if my town of Mobile with european influinced architecture.
You know this is pretend right? Nobody is suggesting these cities be leveled and began again.
Ain't nothing wrong with using a little creative imagination
Until that "creative imagination" manifests itself in a desire to use the state's monopoly to tax and coerce in order to force the taxpayer to pay for unsustainable fantasies. The "Urban Planning" faux forum is completely infested with it, and I submit Detroit -- a once-great engine of productivity destroyed by unrealistic ideas and short-term politically-, rather than entrepreneurially-driven thinking -- as Exhibit 'A'.
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