At first, only a few vacancies will exist on the corridor--these are turned over to grass or sometimes asphalt. Once enough vacancies exist that a portion of the ROW is clear, construction will start...but not of the final highway, rather, of a placeholder road w WIDE clearance
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You can see in the last pic that this extra width is temporarily being used for grassy barriers between sidewalks and the main road--in more urban contexts, the extra width will more likely be converted entirely into sidewalk, as you can see in this picpic.twitter.com/pUqXr630k0
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The result is that people get to start using a highway ROW before it's actually a highway, and more importantly, that property is handed over at a pace that's amenable to each owner--even if it means the final product takes a long time to be built.
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I like this concept as a way of restoring rail service on now-abandoned ROWs in the USA. Sometimes these get built over, and it's assumed that there's no way to get homeowners to relocate w/o paying them a lot of money, so the ROWs are written off as irrecoverable...
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...but suppose you can designate such a ROW as a long-term priority, and buy up the properties one at a time as people move out at whatever pace suits them. It would take a long time, but eventually you'd have the entire ROW cleared without breaking any eggs.
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Best of all, the entire process will be very incremental--at every step of the way, people who live nearby can adjust, and the construction can take place in smaller, cheaper increments.
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Does this work well for them? Just wondering. It seems like here in the U.S. there's always the fear that if it's not approved and done at once that it might never get done/finished, or the need for something to be done quickly to be functional enough to make a difference
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it usually works--once something is approved, it will progress inexorably until it's complete; rather than a fear that something won't get finished, the fear is that it'll just take longer than you wanted...but certainly get finished. big exception (sort of...) is Narita Airport
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Very very stubborn property owners were so tenacious there that they literally bent the runways to go around the houses, and built underpasses so that the property driveways would still connect to main roads. Result is the airport is open now but below intended capacity.pic.twitter.com/nxYULsdnhl
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(capacity as in runway capacity--also, nobody is expecting them to be able to expand this airport in future)
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At that point why would you still stay there? compensation for selling not enough? You'd think all the air traffic noise would start to annoy at some point.
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I wonder the same thing--just spite I suppose
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Basically, just wait until they die or their kids sell; rather than using eminent domain?
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yes, and they will wait DECADES
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Seems inefficient tbh
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Worth it imo, rather than kicking people out of their houses
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I suppose if they made a higher offer or made it very unpleasant to live in the path of construction it would create more incentive; but it's interesting to see a more hands off approach
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ain't this only possible because the average lifespan of a japanese house is significantly lower than that of an american or european house?
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actually, thinking it over that might still be completely irrelevant i guess
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Ya I was gonna say, the turnover surely helps but probably isn't prerequisite
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