Great photos. I use Google Maps in USA religiously and it is almost always correct. I think the Europeans use it less often. I noticed that when I visited you in Czechia. Also, I just cycled across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hardly the cheapest place in America, and it is obvious that it pays to take the airplane across the ocean to Europe just to eat and drink and stay in hotels. They are that much cheaper.
More wines from Portugal are selling in the US. I like them.
On another matter have you ever formed an opinion about Braess' Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox? It basically says that removal of a grade separated road from an urban grid can reduce travel times. The SF Embarcadero and Octavia Blvd are examples. Also Seoul's removal of the Cheongecheong Expressway is another; so is Milwaukee's Park East removal. John Norquist
Thanks for the tip John. I had not heard of this paradox although the concept may match with something I have thought about. Which is that when you build an expressway in an urban area, you usually cut off as many routes as you create. The limited access highway often cuts off surface streets on the older grid. Which would paradoxically reduce mobility. I don’t know if the paradox you speak of is talking about this. I tried to make sense of it, but got a little bogged down in the math.
I am aware of the examples you name, including in your own Milwaukee. You personally get the credit for removing that waterfront highway in Milwaukee now?
My brother who lives in New Orleans part time talks to me about the idea of removing that inner city Expressway. He said, paradoxically, locals talk about it less than the national observers. I think it’s a good idea.
Yeah, to an outsider tearing down New Orleans's Claiborne Avenue Expressway seems obvious, but to Blacks worrying about gentrification, living among Blue Whites who worry about being surrounded by a hatefully antagonist Red state government, it becomes harder. If nothing else, everyone knows the project would take years, likely a decade of disruption and blocked traffic. People's expectations are low here. Everyone has gotten used to the shitpiece above our city.
But New Orleans in 2024 is a delightful welcoming place, to me the best it has ever been, depending on your expectations. The government is dysfunctional.
Great photos. I use Google Maps in USA religiously and it is almost always correct. I think the Europeans use it less often. I noticed that when I visited you in Czechia. Also, I just cycled across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hardly the cheapest place in America, and it is obvious that it pays to take the airplane across the ocean to Europe just to eat and drink and stay in hotels. They are that much cheaper.
I have noticed hotels are cheaper. It doesn’t seem to cost them as much to provide a bed and a room.
likely function of supply; hotels in USA are packed even at high prices. Everyone I know is traveling, seemingly frantically.
Hi Alex,
More wines from Portugal are selling in the US. I like them.
On another matter have you ever formed an opinion about Braess' Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox? It basically says that removal of a grade separated road from an urban grid can reduce travel times. The SF Embarcadero and Octavia Blvd are examples. Also Seoul's removal of the Cheongecheong Expressway is another; so is Milwaukee's Park East removal. John Norquist
Thanks for the tip John. I had not heard of this paradox although the concept may match with something I have thought about. Which is that when you build an expressway in an urban area, you usually cut off as many routes as you create. The limited access highway often cuts off surface streets on the older grid. Which would paradoxically reduce mobility. I don’t know if the paradox you speak of is talking about this. I tried to make sense of it, but got a little bogged down in the math.
I am aware of the examples you name, including in your own Milwaukee. You personally get the credit for removing that waterfront highway in Milwaukee now?
My brother who lives in New Orleans part time talks to me about the idea of removing that inner city Expressway. He said, paradoxically, locals talk about it less than the national observers. I think it’s a good idea.
Yeah, to an outsider tearing down New Orleans's Claiborne Avenue Expressway seems obvious, but to Blacks worrying about gentrification, living among Blue Whites who worry about being surrounded by a hatefully antagonist Red state government, it becomes harder. If nothing else, everyone knows the project would take years, likely a decade of disruption and blocked traffic. People's expectations are low here. Everyone has gotten used to the shitpiece above our city.
But New Orleans in 2024 is a delightful welcoming place, to me the best it has ever been, depending on your expectations. The government is dysfunctional.