As usual, most of the problems are aggravated or directly caused by government bureaucrats trying to force people onto Public Conveyances

The evil, small minds of "we know what best" bureaucrats scheme to slow traffic to a standstill, overload access roads, reduce freeway lanes and ill time traffic signals to backup traffic. This has been done for decades and is now even more rampant as they try to force control of where we live and how we travel. m/r

Here is how it was artfully reported in the 1970s:

Joan Didion on Traffic (and bureaucrats)

My Way News - Many options, no single solution to nation's traffic snarls

Jun 27, (the idiots at AP still do not know what year this is) [2015]
By JOAN LOWY and JUSTIN PRITCHARD

The problem is clear: Traffic congestion will become significantly worse and more widespread without big changes in how people and products get around.

Build more roads. Build more public transit. Rely on new technology. The possible solutions are many, but none is easy or cheap.

A few ways to ease the nation's gridlock:

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PUBLIC TRANSIT RENAISSANCE

Ridership on public buses, trains and subways has reached its highest level nationally since the 1950s, and transit boosters cite this as evidence that expanded service and routes is a good investment.

The nation's driving capital, Los Angeles, is making a multibillion-dollar investment in building or extending five rail lines. Transit advocates say that should be a model: If LA can do it, any region can.

[What a government issued press release crock!] 

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