Charles Stucker
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- Oct 13, 2009
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If your city government enforced a 40 MPH speed limit during peak hours (also known as Rush Hour) then there would be a lot less congestion. It may sound counter-intuitive, but the simple fact is that you can move more vehicles safely through a given section of road at 40mph than at 70 mph. You could probably manage to eliminate jams in most regions by reducing the number of drivers by 10% - because a road which has 10% more vehicles than the maximum load for optimal movement, generates alto of standstill jams. Another funny aspect of the governing mathematics.I'd rather sit in traffic creeping along very slowly, that way my SUV can spew emissions for 40 minutes instead of 10 minutes if I was cruising along at 70 mph.
Sadly, increasing the number of lanes has rapidly diminishing returns after three lanes. Yet more obscure math.