Quotes About Congestion

Humans were a lot of things- bad drivers, nosy, dangerous because so many of them were stupid and there were to many of them on the planet.

Why do they call it rush hour when it lasts days and nobody can rush anywhere?

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

Occasionally a red taxi or Mercedes-Benz would squeeze by along the iron fence and burst free, the driver holding down the horn button so furiously that he might detonate the air bag.

Have more car tunnels, [and you] alleviate congestion completely." —ELON MUSK

For kilometres on end the road was totally jammed with vehicles drawn up three or four abreast - petrol tankers, ammunition trucks, teams of horses,ambulances. It was impossible to move forwards or back. Russian combat aircraft now arrived in wave after wave, and threw bombs into that unprotected, inextricable mass. This is what hell must be like.

In a study funded by IBM in 2011, Mexico City was considered the major city with the world's worst traffic, as judged by drivers' level of suffering, stress and loss of time, all consequences of speed bumps.

Once that day a chime sounded and the video told us of congestion two hundred kilometers ahead, near Chicago.

As a nation, we spent eight billion hours sitting in our cars, waiting for lights to change, for the driver ahead to sneak into that parking spot, for an accident to be cleared.

Driving to work is a nightmare in most Indian cities; people do it because they have little choice.

wasn't adaptable. She needed the city. She needed congestion. She needed masses of people where she could lose herself and simply exist, anonymously, without the constant scrutiny of others. Courtney

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They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

result from living in communities that force people to drive. Just living in a sprawling city has the effect of four years of aging.

the obvious solution to congestion—building more roads—simply produces more traffic, creating a hedonic treadmill of construction and frustration.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

I'm stuck in traffic on the highway to hell.

One seemingly logical step is taken after another, each step plausible and apparently defensible in itself; and the peculiar result is a form of city which is not easier to use and to get around in, but on the contrary more scattered, more cumbersome, more time wasting, expensive and aggravating for cross-use.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.

Cycling is not only a personal passion for me, but it is something that simply makes sense to expand transportation options for Americans. It is good for the health of our nation, the environment, the development of our communities, and is one of the keys to addressing the ongoing challenges that come with urban congestion.

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.