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Does closing roads cut delays? | csmonitor.com
Interesting. Because of the "price of anarchy" when it comes to individual drivers trying to minimize their personal travel time, closing roads along a route can actually make everything more efficient during rush hour.
See...expanding roads isn't necessarily the solution!
Critical Mass § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
An update on the science of traffic jams, with some cool solid liquid phase-change metaphors interesting ideas about traffic's inherent ability to infuriate us:
"According to the calculations of Fey and Stutzer, a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40 percent more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office."
"Long commutes make us unhappy because the flow of traffic is inherently unpredictable. As a result, we never adapt to the suffering of rush hour. (Ironically, if traffic were always bad, and not just usually bad, it would be easier to deal with.) As the Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert notes, 'Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'"
Radical Cyclists Take to L.A. Freeways to Say Bikes Are Better | Autopia from Wired.com
I think that what this group is doing falls into the category of breaking the law for good, but am still baffled by their choice of names...Crimanimalz?
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