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In article <1992Aug05.152752.23896@kronos.com>, richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
|> >In article <1992Aug4.185106.27430@odi.com> dlw@odi.com writes:
|> >>(Actually, do you have any evidence that the recession has caused
|> >>people to let their registrations lapse and take cars off the road?
|> >>Yes, it's possible.)
|> 
|> Pretty hard to detect, given '90s-era rush hours.  I was hoping that
|> the recession would have a positive effect:  forcing people to move out
|> of state and leave more room (& less traffic) for us Massachusetts
|> diehards.
|> 
|> :-)
|> 
|> -rich
|> P.S.  The smiley is supposed to mean I'm not actually serious...

Actually, I noticed a reduction in traffic.  Beginning about a year ago, 
the local street part of my commute (through Davis Square, Somerville, and
then up Massachusetts Avenue to the Arlington Line and Alewife Brook Parkway)
went from at least 10 minutes to about 7.  (The highway part was 15 minutes
except on early Sunday mornings, when it went to 13.  I went out on route 2,
and there was very little traffic.)

It's not a large gain, but it wasn't long to begin with.  Also, I found that
traffic jams (going east on the Alewife Brook Pkwy, also known as route 16,
from the route 2 interchange can be awful) were much less frequent.

Julian C. Lander
The MITRE Corporation
jclander@mitre.org