While these imaginary urban environments are digitally created, they're also based upon freeways and roads that already exist, so they both document and augment the existing road networks.
Part of the existing road would be given over to new leisure areas.
Environmentalists have called for building the new highway close to the existing road, which runs through an industrial zone.
There will soon be three connections across the Forth – a new crossing joining the existing road and rail bridges – but, for now, it's all about the birthday party.
A saving of a cool £1bn, with plans to invest instead in improvements to the existing road, together with sustainable travel initiatives.
The Government's plans for a new crossing to be built alongside the existing road and rail bridges spanning the Forth estuary near South Queensferry have provoked strong opposition from environmentalists and local councillors, including some Conservatives.
That technology, which is being progressively rolled out, allows 12% more vehicles to make use of the existing road network.From this month, Transport for London is starting to charge utilities £2,500 a day for digging up the busiest roads.
But it is not the technology behind autonomous vehicles that is problematic, according to Professor Martin Spring of Lancaster University, it is how they will fit into the existing road system.
I think it's pure insanity for anyone to assume that Lagos's traffic problems can be solved without a means of moving large numbers of people between the mainland and the island with minimum delay outside of the existing road system.
The intent, he said, is either to retrofit the site's two existing buildings, totaling 500,000 square feet, or raze them and build an equal amount of space, which could be supported by the existing road system.
Within five years the standing committee of the Bern Convention, a legal treaty which protects natural heritage, had insisted that it be tunnelled under the gorge with the existing road demoted to a local causeway.
