We used to have policeman, on point duting to keep traffic moving, especially on major hightways.

Now we have fender benders that along with tow trucks, tie up highway lanes for hours.

Get the policeman to clear them, keep traffic moving, or divert traffic at the previous off ramp, and then a twenty minute trip would take twenty minutes and not two hours.

Keeping the traffic moving would be a miracle to fight congestion as well as pollution. If I am on the road an hour and a half less think of all the pollution, gas, time that would save.

I think we need policemen to direct traffic and keep it moving, we need fewer obstructions to the traffic flow, we need traffic to move at the posted speed limit, not at 1 tenth of that.

We don’t need more highways we need for the ones we have to work.

Construction on highways ought to be done one lane at a time. For instance you repair the right lane this year the middle lane next year and the left lane the year following year.

As it happens now each night the accessible lane changes and drivers are slowed down and confused. Some times at certain points we have all three lanes closed at the same time with detours, a very disruptive mode of doing things.

WE don’t need more highways, we don’t need to pay more for them we need them to work the way they were designed to work.

Observer

Perhaps, dear observer, an unstated point of your comment may have been to imply that mech/robot technology could help with traffic flow? (I’d agree, btw.) Otherwise, I can only guess that perhaps you too are a fellow resident of Austin (as am I) and were compelled to lament our traffic woes, as the city grows, on the first public available forum of the day. Either way, thanks for your passionate note. – Steve G.