How Flawed Formulas Lead Down the Road to Sprawl


To help understand the issue in the linked article I will give the following analogy: Let's us say you own a restaurant where the air quality is a problem due to smokers. Well the solution should be obvious... put in more tables for smokers and hire more staff to service smokers to get them in and out of the restaurant a lot faster and make the non-smokers wait as they don't cause any problems hanging around.

Sounds absurd right? But this is exactly the kind of thinking that drives the bulk of our transportation dollars. See the the link after the fold. <a href="http://streetsblog.net/2010/09/30/how-flawed-outdated-formulas-lead-down-the-road-to-sprawl">http://streetsblog.net/2010/09/30/how-flawed-outdated-formulas-lead-down-the-road-to-sprawl</a>;

NOTE:
The Travel Time Index is the ratio of travel time in the peak period to the travel time at free-flow conditions. A value of 1.35 indicates a 20 minute free-flow trip takes 27 minutes in the peak.

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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Imagine two drivers leaving downtown to head home. Each of them sits in traffic for the first ten miles of the commute but at that point, their paths diverge. The first one has reached home. The second has another twenty miles to drive, though luckily for her, the roads are clear and congestion doesn’t slow her down. Who’s got a better commute?

Shockingly, the standard method for measuring traffic congestion implies that the second driver has it better.

From http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/09/29/report-want-to-ease-commuter-pain-highways-and-sprawl-wont-help/