America spent more than anywhere else in the world on cars and more than anywhere else in the world on the road and highway infrastructure to carry them yet has the worst traffic in the world and not in just one city but many of them.
Of the top twenty, ten are in America. It takes a lot of money to do that and, by God, America spent it.
Take a bow, City of Angels. It's an incredible accomplishment when your traffic is worse than in Calcutta.
America is an odd place since it's the global leader in space technology while its also a global leader with the worst automotive technology on the planet despite paying the most for it.
Ed: the 2017 Mustang is one of the coolest automobiles anywhere!
It's not a question of whether the cars are cool but rather whether it's possible to get anywhere in them. If you get a bunch of those cool new Mustangs in the same place, they just become five-hundred-horsepower bus stops.
Ed: but they have great sound systems!
That's a great consolation, isn't it, when you can listen to One Direction ... while you don't go any direction at all.
Dallas is a proud winner in that list and that knowledge is a huge joy in the Rockhouse due to the need to go there frequently to the VA hospital. You know you're in a bad highway place when there are highway signs with clocks to tell you how long it will take to get to the next part. Sometimes it's fifteen minutes and sometimes it's an hour. Welcome to the high tech future.
Ithaka has presented multiple articles on improvements to technology for mass transit but I'm aware of the futility with it since the topic of mass transit has been bandied about in America since the Sixties but the country's ability to ignore the subject has been extraordinary and determined.
Humans are about change and the ones who didn't are still in Africa eating bananas in trees. We change, we evolve, and we move to better things ... unless it has something to do with cars. In that case, the cars evolve but the roads don't so the cars go faster on shittier roads to give us one of the most absurd examples of systems design we could find anywhere.
Ed: if this goes to another Germans do it better then I'm going to round up a posse to find you!
Nah, they suck at it too. Driving in Munich is just as shitty as driving around in her sister city, Cincinnati. Germany has the unlimited, high-speed Autobahn but they're still screwed when they hit the city limits of anywhere. Enjoy Berlin ... if you ever get out of the traffic long enough to see it.
Note: the charm of Munich as in Cincinnati is found through walking not driving. Cincinnati I know from my own experience and Munich I learn from someone who lives there.
If any of the above is exaggeration, consider that you have heard endless verbiage about smart cars, autonomous cars, hybrid cars, and that news goes on endlessly. We hear almost nothing about road design to accommodate any aspect of the new technology in these vehicles. The only time America has ever done anything innovative with road design was when Eisenhower sponsored creation of the Interstate highway system ... but that was seventy years ago.
Ed: and Hitler invented it!
Thanks for that irrelevant information. As we see from above, Germany's roads aren't evolving to accommodate the traffic either.
Ed: so I guess Russia does it better?
Nope, they suck too and Moscow rush hour is just as much for shit as Boston.
Ed: so you're smarter than the rest of the world about this then?
Yes. So are you or you already would have bailed from this. The algebra doesn't require Stephen Hawking's skills when:
X is the number of vehicles
Y is the impediment to their movement
Z is the number of vehicles which can get through the system
X minus Y equals Z
Any reduction to Y necessarily increases Z and more cars get to their destinations sooner.
Many are aware of that simple algebra but are consistently frustrated in any effort to do anything about it.
You know already mass transit is the answer and most don't want to hear it but the fact remains.
Of the top twenty, ten are in America. It takes a lot of money to do that and, by God, America spent it.
Take a bow, City of Angels. It's an incredible accomplishment when your traffic is worse than in Calcutta.
America is an odd place since it's the global leader in space technology while its also a global leader with the worst automotive technology on the planet despite paying the most for it.
Ed: the 2017 Mustang is one of the coolest automobiles anywhere!
It's not a question of whether the cars are cool but rather whether it's possible to get anywhere in them. If you get a bunch of those cool new Mustangs in the same place, they just become five-hundred-horsepower bus stops.
Ed: but they have great sound systems!
That's a great consolation, isn't it, when you can listen to One Direction ... while you don't go any direction at all.
Dallas is a proud winner in that list and that knowledge is a huge joy in the Rockhouse due to the need to go there frequently to the VA hospital. You know you're in a bad highway place when there are highway signs with clocks to tell you how long it will take to get to the next part. Sometimes it's fifteen minutes and sometimes it's an hour. Welcome to the high tech future.
Ithaka has presented multiple articles on improvements to technology for mass transit but I'm aware of the futility with it since the topic of mass transit has been bandied about in America since the Sixties but the country's ability to ignore the subject has been extraordinary and determined.
Humans are about change and the ones who didn't are still in Africa eating bananas in trees. We change, we evolve, and we move to better things ... unless it has something to do with cars. In that case, the cars evolve but the roads don't so the cars go faster on shittier roads to give us one of the most absurd examples of systems design we could find anywhere.
Ed: if this goes to another Germans do it better then I'm going to round up a posse to find you!
Nah, they suck at it too. Driving in Munich is just as shitty as driving around in her sister city, Cincinnati. Germany has the unlimited, high-speed Autobahn but they're still screwed when they hit the city limits of anywhere. Enjoy Berlin ... if you ever get out of the traffic long enough to see it.
Note: the charm of Munich as in Cincinnati is found through walking not driving. Cincinnati I know from my own experience and Munich I learn from someone who lives there.
If any of the above is exaggeration, consider that you have heard endless verbiage about smart cars, autonomous cars, hybrid cars, and that news goes on endlessly. We hear almost nothing about road design to accommodate any aspect of the new technology in these vehicles. The only time America has ever done anything innovative with road design was when Eisenhower sponsored creation of the Interstate highway system ... but that was seventy years ago.
Ed: and Hitler invented it!
Thanks for that irrelevant information. As we see from above, Germany's roads aren't evolving to accommodate the traffic either.
Ed: so I guess Russia does it better?
Nope, they suck too and Moscow rush hour is just as much for shit as Boston.
Ed: so you're smarter than the rest of the world about this then?
Yes. So are you or you already would have bailed from this. The algebra doesn't require Stephen Hawking's skills when:
X is the number of vehicles
Y is the impediment to their movement
Z is the number of vehicles which can get through the system
X minus Y equals Z
Any reduction to Y necessarily increases Z and more cars get to their destinations sooner.
Many are aware of that simple algebra but are consistently frustrated in any effort to do anything about it.
You know already mass transit is the answer and most don't want to hear it but the fact remains.
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