Russia had a three-day traffic jam

Russia had a three-day traffic jam
By Sarah Miller, grist.org

There was a three-day-long traf­fic jam in Rus­sia over the week­end. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snow­storm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Peters­burg and Moscow. Now, one might think a coun­try…

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Traffic: Behavior Based Reality

Drawing upon a growing network of sensors embedded on our roadways several new books and articles show that once again few studies were done into actual human behavior before designing the conduits which we spend most of our waking hours in: our national roadways. Discoveries reveal that for example the $15 Big Dig project in Boston actually increased traffic in the suburbs (average commute times have doubled in some areas) while reducing it downtown (it just moved the bottle necks outward). Also, speed bumps are worthless because drivers just speed up between them.