re: In 30 years Birmingham all the way to Charlotte will be a nightmare for driving

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I was reading this article(can't find it) that unless the south's interstates are fixed, we will be looking at nightmarish super metro connecting all the southern cities, where travel will be an absolute mess.

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That drive is already horrible. There is this giant clusterfreak called ATL and its traffic in the middle of it. Also do you really think that the highways won't be fixed in the next 30 years.

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I find this to be a very horrible prospect. Will we be looking 2 average hour work commutes? How is that even remotely productive? I'm not wasting 4 hours of my day just to travel to work. I'll just find a way to work at home and run a business online.

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It is very probable that 30 years from now the cities will be more popular than the suburbs. The current low gas prices are not going to stay and in 30 years $7/gal could very easily happen.