#trafficjams — Public Fediverse posts

Ministry Proposes Tax on Nostalgia Posts to Save the Environment

https://satiregpt.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/ministry-proposes-tax-on-nostalgia-posts-to-save-the-environment/

Crimean Bridge chaos: Miles of traffic jams reported near crossing

Panic is mounting in Crimea; there are about 1,500 cars stuck in traffic jams

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/crimean-bridge-chaos-miles-of-traffic-jams-1782389416.html

#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #logistics #FuelStorage #bridge #Crimea #occupied #TrafficJams #Panic #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни

Travel Update : Escaping from the hot plains into the mountains
Haldwani | Bhimtal | Bhowali | ....... Mukteshwar

The exit was messy, traffic jams & a hot afternoon. The heat index (like fuel prices) seems to keep going up.

Midst of a long weekend so lots of non state vehicles, many with poor hill road etiquette.

It became cool around Bhimtal. Will need a series of posts to describe what it feels to be in the mountains

#travel #mountains #himalayas #nature #uttarakhand #trafficjams #lakes

🚗💨 OMG, cars are like, sooooo last century. 🙄 Paolo's "revolutionary" realization that cars aren't the future is about as fresh as a traffic jam and as groundbreaking as a parking ticket. 🚦🔁
https://blog.scaramuzza.me/articles/the_car_is_not_the_future.html #carsareoutdated #trafficjams #innovationfail #futureoftransportation #HackerNews #ngated

Deccan Chronicle: Maps Becomes Unintentionally Misdirecting: Cops . “Commuters in Hyderabad increasingly rely on Google Maps for navigation amid heavy rains, but the app’s failure to detect waterlogged roads and delayed updates is contributing to severe congestion on key alternate routes like Srinagar Colony and Sagar Highway.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/maps-becomes-unintentionally-misdirecting-cops-deccan-chronicle/

"Bigger cars
mean bigger costs for everyone else. Larger vehicles – no matter how they are powered – generally impose bigger costs on society than smaller cars."

"Now, SUVs and light commercial vehicles comprise almost 80% of the market. Four in five new vehicles sold in Australia today are an SUV, ute, van or light truck. Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Here’s how to make the system fairer."
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https://theconversation.com/drivers-of-suvs-and-pick-ups-should-pay-more-to-be-on-our-roads-heres-how-to-make-the-system-fairer-252381
#cars #SUVs #roads #RoadDamage #harm #TrafficJams #congestion #Bellingen #SpacialJustice #pedestrians

"🎤 Abandoned Mines: The Underground Stars of Traffic Jams! 🚧 Welcome to a gripping saga of #sinkholes on #I80, where nature's comedic timing leaves commuters in a never-ending quest for alternate routes. Watch as the DOT performs its greatest vanishing act yet, with no magic wand in sight! 🕳️✨"
https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/5/6/when-abandoned-mines-collapse #AbandonedMines #TrafficJams #ComedicTiming #DOTVanishingAct #HackerNews #ngated

Mashable: Can AI fix California’s epic traffic jams?. “California continues to invest in its tech prowess, as Governor Gavin Newsom announces new generative AI initiatives that sick the technology onto some of the state’s biggest man-power burdens. Part of the leader’s executive order on AI, which directed state agencies to implement the new technology in the name of efficiency, three new […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/mashable-can-ai-fix-californias-epic-traffic-jams/

Ah, yes, the *earth-shattering* revelation that car pickup lines are as efficient as a dial-up connection in 2025. 🚗💨 Why have flying cars when you can have a 30-minute wait for your little darling, right? 🤦‍♂️ Let's revolutionize education by re-enacting last century's traffic jams—truly groundbreaking! 🏆
https://collegetowns.substack.com/p/the-school-car-pickup-line-is-a-national #carpickup #dialup #flyingcars #trafficjams #educationrevolution #HackerNews #ngated

Reading Time: 3 minutes

I just spent over an hour driving between Morges and Nyon because someone crashed his car, and everyone else is rushing home, or away because the holidays are beginning. I bring this up because the friends of Global Warming want to expand the A1 between Nyon and Geneva, to allow for fluid traffic.

The traffic jam I encountered is between Morges and Nyon so to expand between Geneva and Nyon would do nothing to alleviate this problem. There was a time, when I was younger, and more optimistic, when I loved the idea of the motorway being expanded, but now I think it’s too late. It should have been done two or three decades ago. If it is done in six years it will create awful traffic jams for 10-20 years, and by the time it’s ready for use traffic will have doubled again.

I read through the TCS magazine about how expanding the motorway would fluidify traffic, help businesses and disengorge secondary roads. In truth secondary routes would be disengorged by a more comprehensive public transport network. Most cars have one person. One person can easily take a train or bus, if they are regular enough, and their working hours are convenient.

For a time I took the train from a village to Geneva and back, and the journey outwards was good, but the journey back took one and a half hours. The journey by traffic jam in a car would take 45 minutes. I would save 45 minutes by sitting in a traffic jam, rather than taking public transport.

I would be in favour of the motorway expansion if I saw that it was saturated 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and if I saw that the smaller roads had the capacity to take that traffic.

When people are not commuting to work the roads are quiet. On public holidays the roads are quiet. If we found a way to keep people close to where they live, and work, then the need for such roads would decrease. Traffic is, to a large degree due to people thinking “my office is here, and my employees need to be here too.

I would prefer a decentralised co-working model whereby people and their remote office are in a co-working node close to the village where they live, rather than in a town or city. In this day and age people shouldn’t have to commute to a city to do knowledge work.

It makes sense to go to meetings, and events, but for some tasks working remotely would reduce the need for cars, motorways and more. With decentralisation we could have networks and nodes, that are more dynamic, to reduce over-saturating nodes when others are still free.

## And Finally

I am not opposed to motorways being expanded. Three lanes is optimal because it allows slow trucks to be in one lane, cars at the speed limit to be in the second lane, and people who like to drive too fast to be in the third. With just two lanes there is no spare capacity. Either you’re safe, below the speed limit, or you’re in the left lane, speeding, with cars too close behind.

My primary concern is that the motorway will mean noise pollution for years, with no benefit until a generation from now. They need to rebuild bridges, re-do plenty of roads. There is already too much noise pollution from construction, without having the motorway project making noise for decades. After that the noise of traffic will be even worse.

During lockdown we got to experience life without the sound of traffic. Now that we know the difference we have to tolerate road traffic noise pollution.

https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/the-a1-hallucination/

#congestion #infrastructure #overcrowding #traffic #trafficJams

🗣️#HeiGIT's Charles Hatfield will speak at the first ever African Transport Research Conference #ATRC2024 🚦

He'll examine the relations between #SchoolCommutes, #TrafficJams and #social factors.

⬇️More info about the ATRC and Charles' presentation⬇️
https://heigit.org/unveiling-the-impact-of-school-commutes-charles-hatfield-presents-insights-on-traffic-congestion-and-urban-planning-at-atrc-2024/

Via @parismarx: The Week of Cone against Autonomous Cars, https://twitter.com/SafeStreetRebel/status/1676695665278337024?t=4nspmkzBDioCR_sHjdKyyQ&s=19
#autonomouscars #traffic #trafficjams #autonomousvehicles #autonomousdriving #autonomouskilling #sf #sfba #thewaroncars

Map Reveals Major Problem[s] - ‘Needs Fixing’ [Queensland, Australia]
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https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/news/making-things-difficult-new-survey-finds-qld-roads-arent-match-fit-for-2032-olympics/news-story/d2c63c828589679cb3772156dcb637be <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping # #infrastructure #event #australia #transport #Queensland #transportation #maps #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #Olympics #congestion #trafficengineering #trafficdata #gridlock #trafficjams #Brisbane #peakhour #economy #appliedscience
@RACQ

#NorthCarolina could be #wasting millions on #widening #roads without #fixing #traffic - Axios Charlotte

According to the idea of #inducedDemand, if you widen a #road to relieve #trafficJams, #driving becomes easier for #people. But the new #lanes will become #congested again in a matter of time, #experts warn.

https://charlotte.axios.com/315264/north-carolina-could-be-wasting-millions-on-widening-roads-without-fixing-traffic/

Study: Ants are “immune” to traffic jams - Enlarge / Black ants marching along the stem of a leaf. Unlike humans, ants don't experience traffi... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1590473 #collectivebehavior #antsareawesome #trafficjams #science #physics #ants