Cost of Congestion Report From Portland Business Alliance

Failure to invest adequately in transportation improvements will result in a potential loss value of $844 million annually by 2025 – that’s $782 per household -- and 6,500 jobs. It equates to 118,000 hours of vehicle travel per day – that’s 28 hours of travel time per household annually;

http://www.no-tolls.com/page27.html

Congestion Relief Scores High

Congestion relief rates more important than education, taxes or healthcare in Portland.

Here is an open ended question from a recent survey commissioned by a group studying how to reduce congestion on the bridges across the Columbia river

http://www.no-tolls.com/congestionpolls.htm

Study: Transit has No Effect on Congestion

“Statistical analysis of the 74 largest urbanized areas in the U.S. over a 26-year period suggests that increasing transit utilization does not lead to a reduction in traffic congestion; nor does decreasing transit utilization lead to an increase in traffic congestion.

Policies designed to promote transit utilization can in certain instances increase traffic congestion—as appears to have been the case in Portland, Oregon.

http://www.no-tolls.com/transit_congestion.html

False Promises: Light Rail Reduces Congestion

“The agencys transportation consultants counted 3,642 riders both directions in October 1997 and 5,415 this month.”

http://www.no-tolls.com/railattractsdrivers2.htm

Mass transit does not reduce congestion

“Traffic congestion and transit are completely different subjects. No level of transit investment, anywhere in the world, has materially reduced traffic congestion.”  https://www.mdpolicy.org/research/detail/mass-transit-does-not-reduce-congestion

Bicycles Are Dangerous

“Cyclists in the EU now account for eight per cent of all traffic fatalities, up one-third in the last decade. In the urban areas, cyclists account for 12 per cent of all road fatalities. In the Netherlands, a great cycling nation that politicians often hold up as a model, cyclists account for 30 per cent of fatalities. The bicycle, where it is most in vogue, is a killing machine: fatalities are five to 10 times that of automobiles per kilometre travelled.” http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=13988

South Florida's plan for traffic: 'We're going to make them suffer'

"Until you make it so painful that people want to come out of their cars, they're not going to come out of their cars," Anne Castro, chair of the Broward County Planning Council, said during a meeting last year. "We're going to make them suffer first, and then we're going to figure out ways to move them after that because they're going to scream at us to help them move."

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-traffic-gridlock-20161028-story.html

The real reason for New York City's traffic nightmare

City officials have intentionally ground Midtown to a halt with the hidden purpose of making drivers so miserable that they leave their cars at home and turn to mass transit or bicycles, high-level sources told The Post.

Today’s gridlock is the result of an effort by the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations over more than a decade of redesigning streets and ramping up police efforts, the sources said.

https://nypost.com/2016/12/02/new-york-citys-traffic-is-intentionally-horrible/