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BadBoy
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Vehicles and the lack of movement caused by accidents and the delays caused by traffic devices and other indecisive idiots acting like dolts on the road when they should just be driving. Gawking at a cop car sho don't help.
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a jar.....!! ;)
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They can be caused by collisions, emergency crews shutting down lanes, construction, heavy volume, people convinced they must slow down and stare at anything out of the ordinary on the side of the road, or a phenomena I personally refer to as "Why the F*CK are we stopping?" where people slow to a near stop for about 1km then take off at 80-90km/h at some arbitrary point - day in, day out. I have personally never figured out the heavy volume or the last issue. With heavy volume, I would expect everyone would merge in and keep moving. Somehow, lots of volume brings traffic to a standstill. As for the last issue, like I said, it confuses me. There's a point near my home where a major highway comes onto a bridge. 4 lanes, 2 each way - same as the highway. Onramps merging as usual, and people keep moving. But, as you come up to the bridge, it slows to 10 or 20km/h You crawl for about 1km, then hit some magic point and everyone takes off like a rocket. No events for the entire day, but it just happens.
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Too many large vehicles occupying too little space.
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Our streets and highways were not built for 21st century traffic. Most of our streets were built in the 1930's and 1940's when traffic volume was much lower than today. The size of our cars is a leftover from the early days of autos, when they were conceived as family vehicles. This was in an era of one-car households. Our work schedules are a leftover from the factory jobs. We have many outdated practices that made sense when introduced. We use cars with 4-5 seats when a motorcycle which seats only 1 would do the job just as well, or a bicycle, which would work for shorter trips would make even more sense at lower cost.
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accidents create some traffic jams
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