$1.5M/mile, is that per lane-mile? To pave a street. People don't really need 10 different ways to cut through a neighborhood in cars, though. This #InducedDemand of leaving a wide-open self-serve free-for-all of asphalt and free parking, is not paid for by gas tax and user fees, it's a cost borne by the people who live there and everyone who would have to bike or walk through it.
and that $1.5M is basically PBOT's budget per day. So we can maintain only 365 miles of streets or something. The Transportation Systems Plan is just a complete fever-dream fantasy when we get to the real costs of driving, but they're going to keep trying to fill that bucket and promise that will be when you can have a sidewalk. 🙄
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