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beaversatemygrandma · 2 years ago

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An unintended advantage of this rail strike going on. I haven’t been blocked into my neighborhood by a train all week.

It’s actually a huge problem in this area. It’s mostly train and truck depots and warehouses and whatnot. And there’s this huge maze of railroad tracks around this urban residential area. So, there’s like weekly complaints to the city because there will be a train stopped on the tracks crossing the roads in a few different places doing their needed drop-offs, pick-ups, car changes, etc. But they Block the Road for hours at a time. Which is understandable, they need to do that. It’s just the absolute nightmare of the build of the area which isn’t their fault at all, just the city planning. It got so bad that they built a bridge across the residential area to cross those tracks. But, this is another fifteen minutes out of the way if you really want to escape the area behind those trains. And that’s only if you’re not heading towards the downtown area, if you’re going that way, then good luck, I think there’s another detour a half hour out if you don’t hit massive traffic.

Idk, but I’m sure there’s been a lot less people from around here being late for work and I bet that’s been nice.

#taks speaks #it's also so bad that the roads are built to avoid tracks in some spots and those are a maze too #also leading to virutally the same exact spot with one extra turn #like. if this city is zoning so many things for 'business only' and kicking people out of homes where its livable #and totally ignoring this area then what the hell #fun fact: my bank is in a house. a literal HOUSE.#just some two story house from the 60s #but that street was business only so nobody is allowed to live there #but the garage was repurposed into the drive thru atm #zoning ordinances make little sense to me ngl #tbf this city is still generally segregated and this is a 'black' area #not fair at all. but. that's what it is which is likely why they find it okay to just Do This #And THEN just up the street it's been gentrified something fierce and i bet once those rich people start complaining #from their overtly modern and large and eye sore homes. then maybe something will change #then again. why would they want to breech that railroad tracks to get to the oldest dollar general and food lion ive ever seen #those are blocked in entirely except by this one intersection with 5 points that circumvents the tracks bc of ANOTHER BRIDGE #these bridges were made within the last thirty years btw #also 5 points. wtf. i watched somebody miss the road entirely and drive into the dirt lot last night #this might be my whole small town to large city culture shock but what the actual fuck is this area #tbf im used to a town with two main 'highways' and like 14k people. not 3mil and a massive web of shit #my hometown is a massive circle. this is too. only with the interstate that was put in about 20yrs ago.#and then outside that interstate are roads built like two hundred yrs ago #so. yeah. it's a mess. but trains haven't been a problem lately so that's great.#(sidenote: they moved the passenger train station a while ago and boarded it up and i WISH it was still in service #bc these trains would WORK for public transport SO WELL with how much they're scattered around out here)

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