The results are in from the U.S. Census American Community Survey and Maryland with it’s second worst commute time of 31.1 minutes. Really? This is a problem?
Well you can probably look forward to that little factoid promoting faster and more car centric road designs rather then looking at the lack of transportation options (just to name one factor.)
From the Getting Back on Track: Aligning State Transportation Policy with Climate Change Goals report I covered earlier:
"Although the new highway [Maryland’s ICC] was intended to relieve congestion on local roads, it will actually create more traffic by triggering sizable changes in the local travel demand patterns."
Yep more roads are going to fix the problem, not.
You can read Michael Dresser’s take on the problems of commute times: https://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/2010/12/shore_commutes_are_relatively.html
Getting Back on Track: Aligning State Transportation Policy with Climate Change Goals report: https://smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/getting-back-on-track.pdfoldId.20101219202926149
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