We'd all love to live in a city free from auto pollution, but as far as I can see, adding bicycle lanes has not reduced the number of cars; it has instead increased gridlock, leaving cars idling in traffic longer, spewing even more pollution.
In an interview with VICE News, Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington State described the less glamorous side of life as a congressman — sometimes eight hours of fundraising calls a day, constant flights back and forth from Washington, and little time with family — all to be met with increasing gridlock in Washington.
The first big point from all this is that given the likely gridlock on tax reform and fiscal reform, immigration reform is our best chance to increase America's economic dynamism.
Gridlock in Congress points to this, but where is the incentive for a politician to increase taxes or cut spending when more than half (and possibly all) of the budget deficit will be funded by printing money?
Just the opposite: It has contributed to legislative gridlock and increased the difficulty of winning enactment of tax and immigration reform.
Many City Hall observers often point to that period, when Chicago was dubbed Beirut on the lake, to argue that increased aldermanic power would lead to gridlock.
(MoH; 132) Sabatier and Weible (2007) point out the inherent difficulty in changing normative beliefs of policy actors, and that divergent beliefs between policy coalitions can lead to extended gridlock and conflict between groups, and yet increasing density of ties within groups.
By reducing the value of by 2.7 m/s the network slowed well, and the time delay between free-flow and gridlock was increased without causing congestion further back in the network.
There is wall-to-wall gridlock.
The margin of control in the House is also likely to be wafer-thin, increasing the odds of gridlock on domestic and foreign policy issues.
