To escape traffic altogether, Grecophiles head for an island with no cars at all, like Hydra.
It's a chance to escape traffic, commuting and all the other stresses of urban life and to reconnect with nature and people.
"I think it's clear that the national parks should be places where the public can go and escape traffic," Mr. Ekey said.
He eventually deeded the system to the American people — along with a third of the land in what is now Acadia National Park — and today the carriage roads, nearly all contained within the park, are a wonderful way to escape traffic and explore its pristine beauty.
Still for others, Utopia might be their own bomb shelter in New Zealand, a smart city in Toronto, control of congressmen or senators, a tunnel to help them escape traffic, their own airport lounge, or, for the extremely wealthy, escape to another planet.
Some security officials in Egypt "even return escaped trafficking victims to their captors in Sinai", he added.
This year, the organization I work for, FAIR Girls, is having a Valentine's Day party in celebration of girls avoiding and escaping trafficking.
Many parents said their wandering children had narrowly escaped traffic accidents or had been in danger of drowning.
The seaside and mountain villages of north Iran have long been a popular vacation destination for city dwellers escaping traffic and pollution.
The traffic indicators used in ESCAPE are traffic intensity on the nearest road (vehicles × day 1) and traffic load on major roads in a 100-m buffer, defined as the sum of traffic intensity multiplied by the length of all major road segments (vehicles × meters × day 1).
