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In dc.driving Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com> wrote:
:> That's a specious argument. While traffic congestion is prevalent in any
:> area where a large group of people live, that doesn't mean that there is
:> "gridlock". DC's lack of adequate roads gives it traffic problems far
:> out of proportion to its size/population. This despite the fact that it
:> has an admirable public transportation system.

: What about Atlanta?  They have a public transit system, but nothing like
: Metro.  It's modest by big city standards.  They have more and wider roads
: than anyplace I have ever been.  Yet Atlanta (a metro smallers than the DC
: metro) has terrible traffic.

And it ranks against DC where, in terms of traffic congestion? Better or
worse?

: The Wall Street Journal just printed an article calling them the next Los
: Angeles.  If 18 lanes on I-75 didn't solve the problem for Atlanta, I don't
: know why you guys think a few extra lane miles in DC are going to solve
: problems there.

Then we should tear down all the freeways in the DC region -- after all,
they don't solve any problems. We'll turn them into petting zoos instead.

To say that a highway doesn't solve "any" problems is simply absurd, and
requires an absurd response.

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