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June 29, 2015

Traffic gridlock getting worse but finding new solutions seems to be gridlocked too

  • To avoid this slow-motion catastrophe, the nation would have to act decisively — and soon.
    • By JOAN LOWY and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
    Associated Press

    At 4:35 a.m. each weekday, Stan Paul drives out of his Southern California suburb with 10 passengers in a van, headed to his job as an undergraduate counselor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some 80 miles and 90 minutes later, the vanpoolers finally arrive to start their workday.

    On the return trip, Los Angeles' infamously snarled traffic often stretches their afternoon commute to three hours. Since Paul joined in 2001, he has spent roughly 1½ years aboard the vanpool and traveled far enough to complete a round trip to the moon.


     
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