Originally Posted by amccarthy
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If you do any research in urban planning, you will see a recurring theme in transportaion studies, Increasing Interstate capacity does not alleviate traffic problems. The increased sprawl will only cause more commuting and in a few years we will be exactly were we started, but billions of dollars in the hole. We need to offer transportion choices for our residents who chose to commute. That is the only answer to our traffic problems. So many other cities in the country are realizing that we can no longer build around the automobile. These cities will leave BR in the dust.
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Could you cite some of these transportation studies? I'd love to see where it says upgrading the interstate system is counterproductive in improving traffic flow. I think a lot of you may be missing the point of the loop. The whole idea is to lessen the traffic volumes through the middle of the city by giving those whose destination is beyond BR a practical alternate route. The loop is not designed to give commuters another way to get to work; it is designed to aid in their usual commute by reducing unnecessary thru-traffic. I-10 is a
major
artery across our state, and its traffic volumes are
not expected to decrease. And while I admit that improvement to BR's public transportation system is an avenue that should be explored, ignoring the city's need for a bypass
as well as improvements to the current interstate is simply asinine.
