I had to check the spelling on "Carmageddon" before typing it. What a ridiculous concept. And that's basically what Timothy Egan writes today in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times.
If you ignored the talk about Carmageddon, a 10 mile stretch of the 405 freeway in LA was closed last weekend because a bridge had to be demolished. Everyone thought it would be a disaster, and it was not. This reinforces that Jane Jacobs-New Urbanist theory that traffic is not like water. Really, it's more like some sort of element with a very short half-life, because if a freeway is closed or eliminated, huge portions of it just disappear.
Now can we get working on the NY-198 downgrade so the people of Buffalo can have Delaware Park back?
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