When we did an article last summer on Regina’s downtown traffic challenges caused by construction the term we used was “Roadmaggedon”.
This weekend in Los Angeles, where a 16 km stretch on typically grid-locked Interstate 405 (pictured left) has been shut down to permit the partial demolition of a bridge as part of a $1 billion freeway widening project the term they opted for to describe the potential chaos if car-crazy Angelinos didn’t make a half-assed effort to not drive everywhere like they usually do was “Carmaggedon”.
Of course, once the freeway is widened all of L.A.’s traffic problems will be solved. Right?
Did you see that Tom Vanderbilt (author of Traffic) issued a challenge over Twitter this weekend to JetBlue. JetBlue was offering flights over the 405 for $4; Vanderbilt opined that bikes could probably cover the 30 miles faster than a plane…and he was right. The plane finished behind the bikes, and a rollerblader(!).
Oops, there should be a “?” at the end of the first sentence. Don’t you just hate people who make their rhetorical questions into statements.