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Congestion, among its other faults, leaves cars idling on the roads wasting gas. It also harms some of the more common mass transit systems. For example, nobo
by Natsu 11y ago
Congestion, among its other faults, leaves cars idling on the roads wasting gas. It also harms some of the more common mass transit systems. For example, nobody is going to see a bus as the faster option when they're both traveling the same congested streets as the cars do.
That said, it does work sometimes. For example, if you're going to a baseball game, it's better to use the light rail than to go anywhere near the downtown traffic in Phoenix.
- grub5000 11y agoIf you have effective bus lanes (such as in Edinburgh), the busses offer a visibly faster alternative to driving. Even at peak time.
- beobab 11y agoI humbly suggest "especially at peak times".
- arethuza 11y agoBe thankful that Edinburgh's roads weren't "improved" in the 1960s: http://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?tag=edinburgh-motorways http://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?tag=edinburgh-motorways
- gsnedders 11y agoWhereas Glasgow still suffers from its motorway plan having been left half done, leaving the city with a single motorway crossing of the river (with only two lanes, down from five as you start to approach the city!).
- HerpDerpLerp 11y agoSurely everyone is on the tram now ;)
- Natsu 11y agoWe have HOV lanes, but those are on the freeway and none of the buses I ever rode used those on their route, though I have seen empty buses using them on occasion.
- holri 11y agoModern cars are switching off the engine instead of idling. Therefore no gas is wasted.
- Piskvorrr 11y ago...but the current implementations are sorely lacking: the idea is "just turn the engine on and off an order of magnitude more often than it's designed to," leading to increased wear on the engine, meaning more waste as it wears out faster. That's just shuffling the pollution somewhere else in the lifecycle.