The lesson I take away from that is you can reduce congestion over some period of time, but it's very difficult to sustain that.
Tim Lomax
There's a combination of factors -- the amount of people, the amount of roadway that is there. It's sort of a supply demand relationship -- you can think of it that way. And there's a lot more demand than there is supply.
people relationship demand
Congestion is worsening, no doubt about that.
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Each city needs its own 'bag of tricks' to address this growing problem.
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In a booming economy, the transportation system is always going to be a lagging factor.
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All of this demand can't be handled in the (rush) hour like it used to be, so traffic spills over, trails over into other hours
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Areas that are rapidly growing are usually places where traffic is growing, too. If you add 10,000 jobs, you never add enough transportation capacity to meet the demand.
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time lesson difficult
They have been a real leader in getting more efficiency out of the existing systems. They have really led the country in that respect, in a lot of technology.
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Areas that are most successful in dealing with transportation issues take a multi-modal approach
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And that's spreading to more of the urbanized areas, so instead of just the area in the beltway being congested, it's a lot more than that now.
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