Tim Lomax
Tim Lomax
difficult lesson period reduce sustain
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.
booming system
In a booming economy, the transportation system is always going to be a lagging factor.
areas dealing issues successful
Areas that are most successful in dealing with transportation issues take a multi-modal approach,
address city growing needs
Each city needs its own 'bag of tricks' to address this growing problem.
area instead spreading
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.
add areas capacity growing jobs meet places rapidly traffic
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.
demand handled hour traffic trails
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,