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I'm a longtime lurker. I registered just to respond to this thread.
1. It's logical that Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and Miami have the worst traffic jams in the south. They're the south's largest metros after all.
2. There was one major U.S. city missing from the list of worst traffic jams -- New York City. That's very telling since NYC has the largest population AND the largest number of people traveling through the city, yet they don't rank as high in the traffic dept. I believe they are proof that urbanization can work well. That supporting mass transit for its citizens as well as commuters has aleviated some of the problems we see in every other city. Of course the city design plays a part, but if we encourage our cities to be more like NYC we could easily reduce the amount of traffic congestion accross the country. My question is how do we encourage people (Especially people in the south) who are married to their cars? Building public transport and highrises won't help if we can't get people to use them. What can be done to convince people to use them???
I'm a longtime lurker. I registered just to respond to this thread.
1. It's logical that Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and Miami have the worst traffic jams in the south. They're the south's largest metros after all.
2. There was one major U.S. city missing from the list of worst traffic jams -- New York City. That's very telling since NYC has the largest population AND the largest number of people traveling through the city, yet they don't rank as high in the traffic dept. I believe they are proof that urbanization can work well. That supporting mass transit for its citizens as well as commuters has aleviated some of the problems we see in every other city. Of course the city design plays a part, but if we encourage our cities to be more like NYC we could easily reduce the amount of traffic congestion accross the country. My question is how do we encourage people (Especially people in the south) who are married to their cars? Building public transport and highrises won't help if we can't get people to use them. What can be done to convince people to use them???
