On Feb 1, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>> There are inexplicable traffic jams on what looks
>> like a godforsaken stretch of I-84 between Danbury
>> and Hartford in the middle of weekday afternoons.
>
> What's inexplicable about them? They built the freeways, people moved
> further away, now they have to drive more, et voila as they say in
> Paris. Population has increased while density continues it's long
> slide: it's inevitable that "traffic" increases. It's just entropy.
I mean inexplicable in the sense of no accident blocking traffic, or rush hour. Bumper-to-bumper traffic at 1 PM on a Wednesday in Hawleyville, Ct., seems weird.
Though of course you are onto the great paradox of highway building. New highways don't relieve traffic - they cause it.
Doug