[ale] unusual global warming experiment

[Jim Philips]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>wrote:

> The problem with "reducing traffic" for those who can't telecommute is
> that it usually means "mass transit" which almost never gets you from
> start to finish.   When I lived in Houston and was dirt poor my job was
> 6 miles from home.  To get there via bus I'd have had to walk a mile,
> wait for a bus, go at the snail's pace the bus goes due to multiple
> stops, get off the bus and walk 1/2 mile to my job.   This says nothing
> about all the crazies you have to be exposed to at the stops and on the
> bus.
>
> I opted to just walk the 6 miles each way.   It saved me both time and
> money and was better for my health (physical and mental).
>
> The "less traffic" solution is what Environmental nuts keep trying to
> force by opposing any road expansion.   They think that it will force
> people to give up the comfort of their cars to avoid the commute time.
> Instead they've caused an increase in pollution by forcing everyone to
> sit idling in their cars for an hour or more rather than drive them for
> 20 minutes.
>
>
Well, I would be hard pressed to find a good argument for MORE traffic. But
I think technological solutions are on the way:

1. networked traffic management based on GPS
2. an increasing array of "auto-pilot" features in cars.
3. and not least: cars that pollute less
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