Dislike traffic in the US? Don't travel to China then...

Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> "Sherman L. Cahal" > said in
> misc.transport.road:
>
> >Found this via Fark
> >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...81 1&ito=1490
>
> This, folks, is OUR future. This kind of massive gridlock is what
> happens when the number of cars grows faster than road capacity.
>
> It's also interesting (to me, at any rate) that even the magical
> traffic circle/roundabout/whatever you want to call it cannot cope
> with excessive numbers of vehicles.
>
> It won't be long before I am whizzing by traffic jams just like this
> as I ride my Metrolink train to work at 90 MPH...
> --
> My driving videos:
> http://www.geocities.com/slothkills/videos.html

Well, I don't whiz to work at 90 mph, but I can do 55 mph most of the
time. I choose to live in a place where population density averages
less than 100 persons/square mile, and where "gridlock" means missing
the green light by 10 seconds. And I am beyond the exurban fringe by a
big enough margin that it will likely not consume me in my lifetime. I
have talked to untold #'s of people who moved 5 miles from the suburbs
to "get away from it all", and then complain when it caught up to them.
Not much foresight there, methinks.

IOW, I highly doubt MY future will resemble China's. I would rather
live in a city well served by transit than a dense suburban area with
poor transportation alternatives, though.

RP