"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Future of New York City Transportation: Goodbye Cars, Hello Rails
Submitted by TheMPP on Tue, 2015-09-29 00:00
Traffic engineers like myself, we all missed it, and it occurred around 2003, 2004, when suddenly vehicle miles traveled per capita went down for 10 consecutive years. It’s only the incredible drop in gasoline prices that’s moving some people towards driving more.
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