After fifteen years of living here, I&#x27;ve concluded that a large part of the traffic woes are brought on by the general driving habits of the residents themselves. Can&#x27;t properly merge (speed up to the flow of traffic, please), can&#x27;t stay out of the left lane, and huge gaps are often left because a driver can&#x27;t be bothered to push the accelerator (exacerbating the jerky stop-and-go). Seattle doesn&#x27;t need more roads, Seattle needs to learn to operate their vehicles (though Seattlites will tell you it&#x27;s the immigrant Californians; talk about denial). Contrast to, say, NYC where it appears to me that everybody just wants it to work and if you&#x27;re screwing it up for everyone else you get a horn and a finger. Which, despite stereotypes, doesn&#x27;t seem to happen all that often (disclaimer: never lived there, visited lots) because everyone <i>else</i> wants it to work, too.<p>That, and they should have said &quot;yes&quot; to federal light rail dollars forty years ago. Now we&#x27;re stuck with a tunnel that I&#x27;m becoming increasing convinced is never going to get finished.