Well yeah because here is where the jobs are and where the money is. As more folks flee backwards Republican states that can't pay their bills and are trying to steal rights from Americans the Blue States will become more crowded. Iowa isn't exactly a hot bed of employment, education, and has even less available housing since its mostly a rural state that depends on Federal Highways for transport while MA has more locally maintained roadways. We have too many people on the road here because MBTA is not keeping to schedules of repair and upgrades and haven't for some time and can't handle the people it needs to efficiently. Properly funded and on schedule the MBTA would take another 10% of those cars out of the traffic. Companies need to be more flexible about work from home an need to be more flexible on their hours of operation... that would also reduce the number of car commuters.
The whole reason for this issue is the state,,, no right on red, lights that aren’t synchronized. The big dig goes down to 2 lanes, Manhattan has 8 million occupants, it is possible to drive from Canal Street all the way up Broadway to Harlem stopping only twice. In Massachusetts you can’t go three blocks without hitting two lights and having to stop for each light. The state has set it up to control traffic by using traffic jams. It is also one of the reasons that Massachusetts the Boston area has some of the most hateful drivers with the most road rage incidents in the country. This can be fixed but the state doesn’t care.
Absolutely right, it baffled me. None of the lights are synchronized. Sometimes I will be driving down Route 9 when there is literally no car on the street, and a red light with walk sign stops me. Makes no sense.
People are just coming to th8s realization now? Lmao. This is a known fact. Heavy traffic is a killer on your car. Especially SUV's. It's why I literally refuse to sit in rush hour traffic. I'm not joking. I don't drive during rush hour. I don't want to be sitting in my car wasting gasoline and wearing my brakes. Brakes are very expensive to replace. Owning an SUV is very expensive. Between insurance, gasoline, wear/tear and regular repairs it adds up. You're talking thousands of $$ per year. Every year. Between insurance, gasoline and some repairs, I spent almost $6,000 on my suv in 2023. Now some of that was due to my AC line breaking last July, which is sort of fluke, but still...its expensive. And that's ONE YEAR.
This has to be one of the most insensitive news comments I have heard in a long time - "If you don't like it get out of the state." Are you kidding me? And then there is.."You can walk". What?!?? Insensitive and basically stupid comments.
And another thing! Why are excise taxes higher for someone with a newer vehicle!!? I thought newer cars were more fuel efficient and better for the environment? Why tf are people being penalized for that? Meanwhile some crappy 99 Honda costs 50 bucks for the year while the muffler got a hole in it with 80 rot spots…
Absolutely botched the whole point which is that there are so many people on the road because the T is not a reliable alternative for enough people to ditch their cars for public transportation - that is the whole way we will reduce traffic congestion
These are horrible underestimates. I lose 10-15 hours a week commuting by car. What retread news anchors, walk…. When your commute is 25-30 miles - walk? Are you stupid? Other solution is leave the state? What tools!
