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Article #14369Re: Traffic Congestion (2020)
From: Bentley
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:00
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In dc.driving John Lansford <johnl@vnet.net> wrote: : A medium sized city (I also said small ones) has under a half million : people in it. "Significant" congestion would, IMO, mean more than an : hour of "rush hour" traffic backups, which would equate to Level of : Service F. That sounds good to me. : Around that speed, the combination of speed and volume of traffic [snip] Thanks. I figured you'd explain it. I HAVE to find that article, though. Argh. :>even slow traffic during my half-dozen business trips there. : Then your claim that "all cities have congestion" is thereby : incorrect, without any examples of my own. Not necessarily. As I've demonstrated, I'm by no means a highway expert. And my few trips to Topeka serveral years ago hardly qualify as a responsible survey. But I will accept your examples, and add an "almost" to my original statement. I stand corrected. -- > B E N T L E Y < bentley AT digex DOT net A long frisbee throw from the pungent and lovely Potomac River www.access.digex.net/~bentley/remove-this-bot-blocking-part
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,bd61e3661a9da019 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: f7890,bd61e3661a9da019 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7890,public From: Bentley <bentley@access4.digex.net> Subject: Re: Traffic Congestion (2020) Date: 1998/07/12 Message-ID: <nnYp1.1383$wf.270532679@newsreader.digex.net> X-Deja-AN: 370657181 References: sreader.digex.net> <35a8b369.227453468@news.vnet.net> Organization: National Brotherhood of Evil Geniussess User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/4.1.4 (sun4m)) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:06:11 EDT Newsgroups: dc.driving,misc.transport.road