I can remember reading in one of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader books (on one of the bottom pages) a trivia note that stated that the average speed on freeways in Los Angeles around 60 or 65 mph in 1970 but by the late 1980s, it was 40 or 45. Wonder if the same sort of thing is happening in the Bay Area?
I’d say the Bay area is worse than Los Angeles.
The Bay Area transportation system was likely designed by traffic engineers on LSD and mushrooms.. my best guess.
What has happened here is no one had a vision of how much this area might grow and how quickly.. The problem here is,, no more easily accomodated addition of lanes is possible.. which means lousy freeway layouts , designs, traffic flows that don’t, all the things a place like Toronto avoided a long time ago in the design of their road system in that area.
BART should have encircled the Bay when it was first built.. They are a few years away from finally getting it to the San Jose downtown.
You can only pack so many pounds of moose fertilizer in a 5 pound sack.