Helpful signs & Studies of congestion

“You are trying to get somewhere, traveling at roughly the same speed as the Chrysler Building, creeping past miles of cones and immobile construction equipment, some of which has vines growing on it, and at last you come to what is, as far as you can tell, the only working machine in the entire highway project: a generator-powered electric sign, flashing the vital message, “EXPECT DELAYS.”

“What is causing all this congestion? According to a report from the Dept of Transp, which recently completed a six-year $187.3m study of the problem the root cause is, quote ‘a whole lot of people driving.’” (Dave Barry in “Wit’s End” WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE10/22/00.