Traffic getting worse.

[Showtime]

I knew it.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/09/traffic.jam.ap/index.html

-j

[BigJon]

Eh...what do you expect? Were at, what, 2.5 cars per person on average now?

[gear02]

Eh...what do you expect? Were at, what, 2.5 cars per person on average now?

2.5 cars per person? Are you serious?

Do you mean 2.5 persons per car?

[BigJon]

No. I was being serious....but I was exaggerating. :hihi:

[zippyjuan]

Just did some quick checking for numbers-
Department of Transportation estimates 228 million vehicles (cars and motorcycles- not trucking or busses or the like)
and says there are 196 million licensed drivers for 2003.
Population of people over 18 (most likely to be drivers) is reported to be 217 million.
Some other sources give higher figures for the number of cars.

So there are more cars than drivers.

[A Day]

traffic here in LA is bad enough to lead to suicide/homicide...Im just glad im not one of those people who have to deal with it because of their job hours but even me who tries to avoid leaving the house at rush hour i still get hit with loads of traffic in LA, there really are no specific hours for rush hour, its rush hour all day

personally I think we need to put more effort and money into expanding freeways and building a better subway system, the one we have now blows, it goes nowhere, it doesnt even go to LAX, and they wonder why no one ever rides it.

[bachviet]

It's good that I only use local streets to commute btw home & work. It still takes me around 20-25 minutes to drive less than 6 miles. :(

[nhbilly]

It's good that I only use local streets to commute btw home & work. It still takes me around 20-25 minutes to drive less than 6 miles. :(

I feel you. I live 6 miles from work and it takes me 30 minutes to get there.

[InfiniteNothing]

nhbilly: Bike!

[nhbilly]

nhbilly: Bike!


thru Santa Ana? I don't want to be a hit and run victim. :rolleyes:

[Merlin]

thru Santa Ana? I don't want to be a hit and run victim. :rolleyes:
You'd look just like your avatar.

[mcs328]

it takes me 90 minutes to travel 30 miles one way. That's 20 mph average speed. I wish they built the subway so there was a connecting ring and not just the spokes and the center in DC.

[Airencracken]

I have the solution, but of course like all the things they promised would be here in the year 2000. No jetpacks. WTF? Why? Where the hell is my jetpack? I want one! Now!

[nhbilly]

You'd look just like your avatar.

no shizzzy. LOL

[Mike_N_Ike]

Yeah I work about 2 miles from home and I don't have to take any freeways to get there. I can't stand sitting in traffic. At all. I refuse to drive on the freeways during rush hour. I'd rather be sitting at home staring at the wall.

[kimchicowboy]

it takes me 90 minutes to travel 30 miles one way. That's 20 mph average speed. I wish they built the subway so there was a connecting ring and not just the spokes and the center in DC.
i'm not sure what's better. being stuck in a car in rush hour or being crowded in a subway during rush hour. both have their own pros and cons. comfort wise: car. price/time wise: subway.

[palayah8ta]

I have the solution, but of course like all the things they promised would be here in the year 2000. No jetpacks. WTF? Why? Where the hell is my jetpack? I want one! Now!

Well if we had jetpacks, we would be stuck in air traffic.....

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I think we should all have motorcycles/bikes like china. haha imagine us fatass americans on bikes!!

[attgig]

better public transportation would be nice. like europe where gas is expensive and public transportation is great....

[InfiniteNothing]

I've always thought that widening freeways will never be enough. You need to revolutionize the way people think about moving around. I've always thought really fast ski lifts were a good way to travel. Have everyone driving cars with removable cockpits, park and have one of the "freeway 2 (tm)" hooks grab your cockpit and sort you into the "traffic tube (tm)". This tube works sorta based on the vacuum tube systems that they used to use at banks. The drag of all the collective cars would be a tiny fraction of the drag of the individual cars reducing power consumption. At the end of the "freeway 2 (tm)" you get put into another car and drive to work. All you pay is a monthly fee for unlimited exocar rentals.

Rethink networks.

[Airencracken]

We should send cars in packets :dodgy:

[Merlin]

I've always thought that widening freeways will never be enough.
You're right. There is an area of economics that studies such things and the general conclusion is that bigger roads tend to attract more people and the congestion persists.

[Showtime]

I've heard the same thing, but I wonder if the roads are widened and there are no new homes or businesses, why would the amount of cars using the roads increase.

-j

[nhbilly]

:throw:
We should send cars in packets :dodgy:

[InfiniteNothing]

I've heard the same thing, but I wonder if the roads are widened and there are no new homes or businesses, why would the amount of cars using the roads increase.

-j

New homes and businesses will pop up in the outskirts. And then you have them driving through as well.

[BrewMaster]

that teleportation device would be mighty useful these days...

[Eugene]

haha imagine us fatass americans on bikes!!
this reminds me of that queen song... bicycle race...

"fat bottomed girls will be coming your way,
so look out for those beauties, oh yeah!!

on your mark
get set
go!!

BIII-cycle race, BIIII-cycle race, BIIII-cycle race!"

:cool:

[Yossarian]

takes me 6 mins to travel about 10 miles.

[Merlin]

takes me 6 mins to travel about 10 miles.
Yeah, if you're in a plane.