Why All the Congestion???

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If Americans Are Telecommuting More Why All the Congestion?
Despite reports that more employees are telecommuting at least part of the time, commuters driving into major cities or through heavily traveled suburban corridors on any workweek morning would beg to differ: congestion is growing. And near the top of the heavily congested areas are many of the high- tech havens. Traffic congestion is in fact continuing to worsen, according to the 2005 Urban Mobility Report, an annual study by the Texas Transportation Institute. Since the group began to keep records in 1982, congestion has increased every year.

"There is no single solution that can reverse the growth in congestion," said study author Tim Lomax, a research engineer at TTI. "Congestion is a complicated issue and can't be solved with one approach nationwide. We need to think about how policies and programs enacted at the federal, state and local levels affect congestion."

Here are the dismal statistics uncovered in the study:

http://www.naiop.org/developmentmag/corporate/index.cfm?content=200601.cfm

[Bacchus39]

1. population growth perhaps??

in addition, the road capacity does not keep pace with population growth. even if more people are telecommuting it doesn't come close to the increase in population and, therefore, vehicles on the roads.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Plus, back when I was a teenager, we drove mom and dad's

cars. Nowadays you see driveways with four to five cars parked in them.

[porphyrian]

3. Raise gas prices!

See? They already have an answer!