• Re: Widening Highways Doesn't Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?

    From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to Leroy N. Soetoro on Fri Jan 20 16:15:25 2023
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    On 1/13/23 5:02 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html

    The big problem with public transportation in SoCal is that it doesn't
    go where we want/need to go. I can drive to my daughter's house 27
    miles away in half an hour on a good day or 1.5 hours on a bad day.
    Google is unable to calculate a route using public transportation now,
    but when I did it perhaps a year ago it required more than 5 hours and
    several transfers among train and buses. I may have asked Metro to
    figure it for me instead of google, but in any case it was ludicrous.

    Traffic calming etc. in order to force us out of our cars and onto feet, bicycles or public transportation is NOT what we need.

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