• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    I wonder if a picture like this could be used to fool future archeologists (or paleontologists or historic internetologists, or whichever would be studying it) into thinking we put great effort into segregating people with white lights and scum with red lights from using the same roads.

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
    91·
    7 months ago

    “One More Lane Bro is the only option, I checked, and it should be subsidised by NYT who make too much money.” - Robert Moses

  • massivefailure@lemm.ee
    213·
    7 months ago

    Not forcing everyone to go to a big centralized city rather than spreading everything out will actually fix it. We started doing that long ago but recently have started listening to greedy real estate developers gentrifying cities and now EVERYONE GO TO CITY TO DO THING and people are now shocked, SHOCKED that traffic into and out of cities is out of control.

    And love how other “solutions” are LOL MASS TRANSIT. Yep, going somewhere on a track that doesn’t go immediately to a certain place then having to get on a damn bus or in a taxi or a freaking Uber scam to actually get where they need to go which is not only ableist because it’s difficult for people with mobility issues to do that, but also problematic if you need to actually transport any decent amout/size of goods on said public transportation. Cars are the best at getting places and no amount of whining and bitching and complaining is going to change it.

    • GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz
      11·
      7 months ago

      Could the problem be that all the money went into building roads and car centric cities, and no money was spent on making mass transit better or rethink on how urban sprawl might cause massive traffic problems?

    • Ebber@lemmings.world
      13·
      7 months ago

      You think people advocating for mass transit want to remove all roads? Cause that’s a nice strawman you have there

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      12·
      7 months ago

      Try living in a place that isn’t a shithole and your face will fall so quick. Newsflash, car is the best option in a car centric system.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      4·
      7 months ago

      You know what would work just as well, but without isolating people?

      Mixed zoning and mass rapid transit

      Let people work walking distance to their home, give those who need to go somewhere a way of going there quicker than traffic

      It’d also be good to mandate easy availability of work from home for anyone in a job where that is practical

    • conorab@lemmy.conorab.com
      32·
      7 months ago

      This is the most infuriating part. The best solution to these issues is to remove the need to move in the first place, and WFH for the people that want it and who can do it removes a huge amount of traffic with comparably little cost (company laptop, a screen and maybe a desk and chair, many of which could just be taken from the office).

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      7 months ago

      So many people commuting to jobs that could easily be done from home nowadays

      I work in the freight industry in a position I can’t do from home but when the whole work from home thing was in full swing I didn’t get stuck in traffic except a few times when the local drawbridge went up

  • FuryMaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    I keep thinking this during my daily commute along a 3 lane freeway. If a bus/truck overtakes another bus/truck (often), it basically becomes a single lane freeway. And during peak, that little manoeuvre is going to cost you and hundreds of cars behind you, probably for a long time.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      2·
      7 months ago

      My small city’s main suburb to centre link is a 100km/h, two lane each way parkway, until it merges with a similar road from a different centre, grows to 3 lanes each way, and slows down sharply as it gets close to the centre

      Between the last traffic lights and the spaghetti junction that merges it with a similar road it’s free flowing and fine. The slow lane goes about 95, the fast lane about 100 to 110, with occasional slight slowdowns when a 95km/h car catches up with a slower one

      But on that stretch there’s about 300 metres of slow traffic due to a fixed speed camera. People going 95 who think their speedometer might be wrong the opposite way to which it is slow to 80; people doing 110 slow to well below 100, people following too close brake heavily, the fast lane ends up with a standing wave with a peak (or is it a trough?) of 60km/h

      Then as you get past the camera it gets loud with even the slow cars rebelling against the slowdown give much throttle. That camera must cost so much CO2. I doubt it catches anyone except during the lightest traffic times. In even medium traffic you couldn’t speed through that bit of road if you tried