You can see it in car-centric cities like Los Angeles and Houston, where yearslong, multibillion dollar lane-widening projects did little to speed commutes.
This is what we saw: May 25, 2010 Promising to speed commutes by more than 80 percent, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Assistant Transportation Commissioner Philippe Petit unveiled a network of crosstown tightrope lanes and zip-line stations Tuesday.
Many people hop the train, but others get on the Taconic State Parkway, a road clearly meant for leisurely Sunday drives instead of a high-speed commute.
But it's important to remember that BRT really has been enormously successful in cities across Latin America – speeding commute times, significantly improving air quality, reducing the toll of vehicular injuries and fatalities, even generating hundreds of millions of dollars in direct carbon credits – and promises the same elsewhere if implemented correctly.
It is a lovely little monument to the period when a drive was for slow-paced pleasure, not high-speed commuting.
That would go far to speed the commute.
The executive, Nasief Abu Shusheh, 51, keeps drivers and cars on both sides of a checkpoint to speed his commute, but that is no guarantee he will get past the soldiers in the middle.
The large ferry that carries cars, people and large luggage charges 10x what the smallest speedboat charges, which also has the advantage of speed of commute.
Tilting the balance further in favour of movement (primarily high speed cycle commuting) will not attract more, slower cyclists.
If completed, the parkway would connect Route 46 to Interstate 280, easing congestion and speeding the commute for those who work in the area's suburban office parks.
