"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote in message ...
"ed kyle" wrote in message
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(Derek Lyons) wrote in message
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.... while
construction and maintenance of the Interstate Highway System
continues apace.

Not nearly apace-enough, based on the amount of time US-ians
waste in traffic! (Whichever candidate prioritizes highway
expansion henceforth gets my vote).

You might want to rethink that. In general many "highway expansion"
projects only serve to increase congestion. ...


I'm starting to believe that this is another "modern myth"
propagated by the anti-development crowd. Seriously, do
you think the solution to highway congestion is to stop
building roads? If we follow that line of thinking, we
should be removing roads. No roads, no congestion!

I keep telling people who oppose using 1 penny from the gas tax for mass
transit/Amtrak that they should support it. The more people they can get
off the roads the more fun driving becomes again.


Trains and buses are nice, but North Americans drive -
and more cars enter the highway every day. Transit
ridership is falling in most cities. I enjoy watching the
empty suburban PACE buses drive around the Chicago suburbs,
for example. Mass-transit commuter trains are a good idea,
but their application is limited. Long distance Amtrak
trains have almost no affect on highway traffic.

If traffic continues to increase without highway expansion,
it will eventually surpass highway capacity, rendering the
highway system useless. This has already happened in
some places, and it is affecting the economy. Traffic
is one reason Boeing is leaving Seattle, for example.

- Ed Kyle