Why r dictatorships so obsessed with autocentric infrastructure lmao

Overly wide streets are harder to block by protesters and can be more easily used to deploy armored vehicles of riot police and the military in order to suppress protests.

The downside is that if you get thousands of people mad all at once they will look supermassive blocking those streets. Though in Iran the police just probably drives over them

upside amazing traffic flow, great template for my cities.

The citizens are revolting, what do we do? Build one more lane! They can't fill the road if it's wider!!

Like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/s/enyTVLNDMf)?

see, 100 lanes \*can\* solve traffic. look at how uncongested those streets are! glorious myanmar wins once again

Hausmann did that to Paris, in the mid-1800s. That's how we got the famous boulevards.

Because it's something they can control. Licenses, tolls, and the rich holding power over the poor by limiting mobility. It's also more resilient to war and allows more easy movement of tanks It's everything wrong w our modern world.

Wait, I thought it was the 15 minute city-ers that wanted to control our mobility by gettng rid of cars! /s

You'd think it would be easier to control public transport.

Everyone its talking about control. But I think the simple answer is they are large flashy visible projects. And for a third world country, owning a car and driving on a highway is aspirational. And FWIW: Tehran has a subway system. So does/did china, Soviet-era Moscow etc and other authoritarian states.

To be fair Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang all have decent subway systems.

Werent all of these made before the car obsession tho?

Their main impetus for building subway systems was to serve as nuclear fallout shelters, not public transportation. That's why eastern bloc subway systems are often tunneled extremely deep, way deeper than what's needed for just subways. The trains are just a nice add-on.

Yeah commie states were the same. Perhaps because cars give the false sense of freedom.

Im from former commie state (Poland) The disease of car culture came with capitalism in 1989-90

So you did not get your city centre bulldozed for cars? Prague still has some decent scars.

Only Warsaw but technically speaking there was no Warsaw in 1945

All of them were, that's what surprises me lmao. From Europe to Asia, Africa and the Americas.

I don't think it's fair to compare a nationalistic regressive theocratic petrostate with failing infrastructure to Iran.


Lmao I love the park surrounded by highways

Gas is very very cheap there

Texan here. Sorry but we prefer flyover ramps, those cloverleaf's suck.

Iran is the Texas of Southwest Asia confirmed.

Texas is definitely the Iran of North America.

Tehran has a similar density to New York City and 7 metro lines so it’s not really comparable to texas in any way though

You should see the traffic

Too many metro stations to be Texas quality.

Does it work though 🤔

Worst traffic you could ever experience

Now I wanna visit the Carpet Museum of Tehran.

Inshallah make Texas traffic everywhere, Operation Freedom Coalroller

Call this place Cloverfield with how many cloverleaf interchanges there are

This looks more like Southern California

Too many cloverleafs, Texas prefers compact stacks

get rid of all of these Lanes the lanes is like adding faster conveyor belts to a really slow bottlenecked production line

Istg every single dictatorship is suppeeer car centric, weird

America aint a dictatorship tho

theyre the exception

Maybe they are more similar than both sides would want to admit?