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Believe it or not, in some cities that have near grid-lock rush-hour traffic - there's between 50-100%+ as many people traveling by bus as by car. If all of th
by onlyrealcuzzo 9mo ago
Believe it or not, in some cities that have near grid-lock rush-hour traffic - there's between 50-100%+ as many people traveling by bus as by car.
If all of those people switch to cars, you end up with it taking an hour to travel 1 mile by car.
It's almost as if they have busses for a reason.
- cyberax 9mo agoFirst, these cities should be fixed by removing the traffic magnets. It's far past the point where we used the old obsolete ideology of trying to supply as much traffic capacity as possible. But anyway, your statement is actually not true anywhere in the US except NYC. Even in Chicago, removing ALL the local transit and switching to 6-seater minivans will eliminate all the traffic issues.
- dfabulich 9mo ago6-seater self-driving municipal minivans would be fantastic, too. (I would still call that a "bus", but I don't care what we call it.)
- supertrope 9mo agoCar traffic magnets like highways inside urban cores? Or people traffic magnets like office buildings, colleges, sports stadiums, performing arts venues, shopping malls?
- cyberax 9mo agoOffice buildings. Everything else is just noise. Large stadium arenas are a special case, but they don't create sustained traffic, and their usage periods typically do not overlap with the regular rush hour.
- toast0 9mo ago> First, these cities should be fixed by removing the traffic magnets. If you remove the jobs and housing, traffic does get a lot better. But it's not much of a city without jobs and housing.
- cyberax 9mo agoIndeed. And people live better lives, with better job accessibility and variety. Once you remove dense office cores.