So… what do you think about the state of our roadways today – and Tom Vanderbilt’s interesting findings ? What are your suggestions for making our roads safer and less congested? Or… is the situation hopeless, and we’re doomed to being mired down by the lowest-common-denominator troglodytes on …

Increase the price of fuel. Keep increasing it until there are fewer drives, making for fewer accidents.

I have always felt that many people pay too little attention to the importance of speed limits. Speed limits are set not just for safety or the possibility of better fuel economy, although those are factors. With handling and stability of modern cars we could probably drive at much greater speeds if…

Just relax, Put James Taylor on the stereo singing… (Chorus) Damn this traffic jam How I hate to be late It hurts my motor to go so slow Damn this traffic jam Time I get home my supper’ll be cold Damn this traffic jam Well I left my job about 5 o’clock It took fifteen minutes go three block…

When gas prices rose above $4 per gallon, the total miles driven in the US dropped by about 4%.

Speed limits are chosen to facility smooth traffic flow. No, they’re not. Speed limits are intended to dumb down the driving environment so that the “lowest-common-denominator troglodytes” can cope. Even so, many still can’t. We learn about them in accident reports in the news. Much of the problem…

No, they’re not. Speed limits are intended to dumb down the driving environment so that the “lowest-common-denominator troglodytes” can cope. Even so, many still can’t. We learn about them in accident reports in the news. Much of the problem arises from the negligible value placed on driving well fo…

You mean the way to go faster is to slow down? In a sense, yes. The problem is not a high average speed, but in all the drivers hurrying up to get somewhere fast who encounter something that slows them down (slower vehicles, construction, accident, bad conditions, etc.). They have to slam on the br…

So it’s the the people who drive slow that cause all the accidents? No, it’s the people who drive badly that cause all the accidents. A good, fast driver is still a good driver and a bad, slow driver is still a bad driver. The difference between them is that a good driver has the skill and judgmen…

Some thinking on how to deal with the tractor-trailer/private auto interface. Should we plan on increasing private auto use or mass transit?

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stephennunnerley August 23, 2008, 7:54pm 5

increasing the price doesnt work!in england we pay the equivalent of $10 a gallon!!and traffic is increasing year on year.if we had petrol at 10 times the price,only the rich would be able to drive,and that would be unfair.

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