Deport the 10’s of millions of illegal aliens.
PING!
Too much money and effort has been direct to everything but roads. Bike paths, inner-city transit, green programs, high or low speed rail, carpool lanes actually do not remove congestion.
Now the car's are smaller and smaller each year, some not even 4x4's driving on 6 lanes already, and still congested?
Just crazy
Why not stagger starting times for people who work the usual 9-5? One batch starts at 9:05am, the next at 9:10am, etc. then on the way home, you leave at 5pm, 5:05 pm. 5:10pm, etc.?
You’d think the grave lack of jobs would have people driving less - but NOW, since jobs are scarce, people need to drive to 2 or sometimes 3 jobs in the course of a day.
Wonder if that’s factored in?
Make a law that road taxes “Will” be spent on roads under penalty of law. Let bicycles pay for their fair share. Let train and other public transportation pay their own way.
Here we go...
As traffic becomes worse an area becomes less desirable and people move elsewhere. Seems to me it regulates itself just kinda sucks for those who have a higher traffic tolerance level.
The answer of course is simple, Flying Cars.
The SCOTUS should Rule that we have a Fundamental Right to own Flying Cars, paid for by The Government of course.
This is a long-standing problem that every urban area in the world has been trying to solve for decades. The answer? THERE IS NO ANSWER!
1. Build more roads
USE GAS TAXES FOR THIS instead of bike paths, light rail, and other horrendously expensive wastes of taxpayer money.
2. Build more public transit.
TOTALLY USELESS. spend billions to move a few hundred people from where few people live to where almost no one wants to go. Yep that will work.
3. New technology.
Possibilities, for those of us who work on computers all day long it could work. For those who actually have to be somewhere to do something it's a non-starter. UNLESS, technology is used to synchronize traffic flow and traffic engineers change their priorities from maximally impeding the flow of traffic to actually trying to work out ways to get it to move.
People driving too close to the cars in front of them is a major cause of congestion.
I’ve been seeing something lately that seems to really help.
It started with the big rigs.
They put about 8-10 car lengths between their front bumper and the car in front of them, and go a steady pace.
Other cars are doing this. It seems to keep the vehicles flowing at a continuous rate, while allowing the impatient drivers to merge safely in and out of lanes.
It also prevents the rear-end accidents that ALWAYS makes traffic come to a stop.
When I get behind other drivers who do this, I rarely hit my brakes. The only thing is that I’m driving (Not just sitting still) at 30 MPH instead of 65 MPH.
Public Transit is highly subsidized in the range of $4-$7 per rider. I know of one transit provider that counts every rider as a new rider at each stop.
So if you get on at stop “A” and are going to stop “C” but the bus makes a stop at “B” you are counted twice. Each year that they report to the transit board at great fanfare how their ridership goes up and up. And the Board thinks this is great news. I tried to tell my elected official who I reported to, who sat on the transit board, how this scheme worked but he couldn’t or refused to do the math that I just explained.
First, stop buying your teenagers a car before they graduate from high school! That will stop the drunk driving and other idiotic things, for a while, and give them a chance to mature a few years, before they run into a telephone pole or something.
Second, if the author is complaining about how the traffic is snarled now ... wait till ‘he’ gets stuck in line at a tollbooth!! Stop, pay a toll, drive at high speed for a few minutes, stop, pay a toll, and do it all over again for the duration of that piece of highway.
Third. You who use ‘truck routes’ will see those to be clogged, if not already, as alternate driving routes become discovered to bypass the tolls, except for the bridges across major rivers, where it will become a mess once more.
Fourth. Your gas mileage will go to that more of ‘city’ average than ‘highway’ which will mean you will pay FOR more gas, at a HIGHER rate, just on the other side of the exiting highway toll gate, if you don’t run out of gas, first.
The cramming of too many people in too small a space makes traffic a problem-duh! Even the Romans had traffic problems, slums, high crime-all the problems associated with people living like ants or bees. Maybe-just-maybe people aren’t supposed to live in hives like bees-might be better to spread out a bit and have more small shops and businesses instead of big boxes and big companies employing 1000’s in one building...
Easy solution. If no one is working then no one has to drive to work. We’re halfway there!