Comments on: Is this Love or Congestion? http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/04/27/is-this-love-or-congestion/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 May 2012 20:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Grant Johnson, PE, PTOE http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/04/27/is-this-love-or-congestion/#comment-7220 Grant Johnson, PE, PTOE Thu, 07 May 2009 10:20:36 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=828#comment-7220 It's definitely all relative, people's perceptions from place to place, that is. We traffic engineers run the numbers the same for everybody, and an LOS F is an LOS F the same no matter where you go, but the perceptions of how BAD it is are exaggerated in the rural communities. They think they have LOS F but it often calculates to a C or D, and when they learn that, they remember LA. And the people in LA don't just have lots of LOS F, they have LOS F1 or LOS F2 or F3 to describe a congestion period that lasts for HOURS, and not just a half an hour or so during a "peak hour." When it's jammed up for three hours, you have LOS F3. Ugh. It’s definitely all relative, people’s perceptions from place to place, that is. We traffic engineers run the numbers the same for everybody, and an LOS F is an LOS F the same no matter where you go, but the perceptions of how BAD it is are exaggerated in the rural communities. They think they have LOS F but it often calculates to a C or D, and when they learn that, they remember LA. And the people in LA don’t just have lots of LOS F, they have LOS F1 or LOS F2 or F3 to describe a congestion period that lasts for HOURS, and not just a half an hour or so during a “peak hour.” When it’s jammed up for three hours, you have LOS F3. Ugh.

]]> By: aaron http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/04/27/is-this-love-or-congestion/#comment-7111 aaron Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:02:02 +0000 http://www.howwedrive.com/?p=828#comment-7111 Traffic is nothing like love. You can think all you want you're in love and not be. But you can think all you want you're not in traffic, but it's just not true. Traffic is nothing like love. You can think all you want you’re in love and not be. But you can think all you want you’re not in traffic, but it’s just not true.

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