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  Being stuck in traffic is a car system failing.  Our towns used to be walkable, but now everyone is mandated to drive a car just to leave the house for a gallon of milk.  We took apart our public transportation systems and dismantled our city to city rail transportation systems, forcing families to drive absolutely everywhere.
  If all you have is a car, everything becomes traffic. 
  We are now the passive generation, sitting in our car behind other people sitting in their car, waiting in line at the Starbucks drive thru >
  
  I do think it’s poor planning to a point.
  There never used to be everyday traffic in my town. But they kept developing green space and building new developments.
  This put a drain on the infrastructure. Now, you can’t even run to the store without a traffic jam. Same roads. New demand. >
  
  Not sure why I’m getting downvoted.
  Traffic jams here are road systems failing. City planners didn’t take into consideration the fact that our roads were built for a certain number of residents and businesses. Now, that has more than quadrupled without taking current roads into consideration. Some roadways were completely, permanently detoured by new construction. People who used them are now clogging more populated roadways. 
  This may not be true everywhere, but certainly here. >
  
  Is it the road system failing? Or is it a failure to plan by administrators? >
  
  Both. Planners planned, and continue to be in charge of planning, the road system. These aren’t state roads.
  I genuinely don’t understand how this isn’t our road system. >
  
  Or an economy failing. If people have to travel far for work every day there will be shitloads of traffic. If everyone just went to their local every day and got pissed, the only person driving legally would be the beer distributior >
  
  And maybe the emergency services 🤣 >
  
  It's basic supply and demand. If those same roads had very high tolls, there would be much less traffic as many consumers would find alternatives, like work from home, mass transit, or alternate routes. >
  
  It’s just as likely people are using the roads incorrectly. A large portion of traffic jams on interstates for instance don’t even exist. They’re induced by someone tapping their brakes and a chain reaction causing traffic to stop. More often than not when you’re at a standstill on the interstate, traffic ahead of you is flowing just fine and nothing is impeding traffic other than people driving poorly. This can’t be fixed with better planning.
  Merging is another example. In the US we often curse at those that fly up to the front of a lane and merge over at the last second at the “front of the line”.  This is actually what we should all be doing. If you take all the traffic from two lanes and stretch it out because you merge early it elongates traffic unnecessarily into other intersections. When you merge at the last moment it fills the empty lane and helps make room in other intersections. This requires people to “zipper” correctly though which demands courteous drivers.
  So again. Not necessarily failing roads. Often times it’s just failing people. >
  
  Yes but in case you haven’t noticed the roads themselves are also failing so.. they’re literally falling apart everywhere I go. Sometimes I wonder how in extremely wealthy communities why their roads are also all completely fucked up.