Traffic woes drive us crazy

[PaleMelanesian]

Our traffic problems are getting worse

Dave Barry - MIAMIHERALD - 10/8/2012

It's a reprint from 2004, but still relevant today. --Ed.

Our traffic problems are getting worse, according to a recent study by the Institute of Discovering Things That Make You Go "Duh."

How bad is our traffic mess? Consider these alarming facts:

FACT: Commuting by automobile now takes so long that many workers have no time to do any actual work. When they reach their place of employment, they grab a cup of coffee, spend a few minutes discussing the previous night's episode of The Apprentice with their co-workers, and immediately start the long commute home, unaware that their jobs were outsourced to Asia months ago.

FACT: In the past year alone, commuters whose car radios were tuned to "classic rock" spent an average of 347 hours - more than two weeks - just listening to the song Takin' Care of Business, by Bachman Turner Overdrive. The statistics are even more chilling for Black Magic Woman.

FACT: Gridlock is so bad that as many as 15 percent of women drivers now pass the time by picking their noses. (The figure for men remains steady at 100 percent.)... [Read More]

[ALS]

Pittsburgh the city itself started dying when they replaced the street cars with buses.
Ten years after the street cars vanished so did the downtown center city shopping experience as well as the night life.

People love the light rail system we have now, problem is, it is limited to the routes.

In the morning and evening rush hours the light rail system is packed with commuters.

Where I moved last year, it is a little less than a mile walk to one of the light rail stops. If I had a job in town I'd be riding it every day.

If you need a car to drive two miles to work in town why put up with urban problems. You might as well move out to the suburbs where there are much better school districts and less crime and taxes.