[Reader comment] "SPEED CORRIDORS: North-South": worst ideas ever.

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worst ideas ever.

Posted by Anonymous to L.A. traffic sucks: Let's fix it! at 11:12 PM

nando replies:

Thanks for the comment and for reading the blog.

With such an attitude, though, I very much doubt that any traffic problem in L.A., or in any other complex metro area, will ever be solved.

ANY ideas, even the "worst ideas ever," are better than none. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, this unbelievably complex and multi-faceted problem of traffic will never be solved unless a mosaic of solutions is TRIED, at least TRIED, to see what works and what doesn't. We'll never know if it will work unless we try. No one solution will work. There is no panacea to the traffic problem. Multiple ideas in a well-orchestrated attempt will need to be tried.

Sure, there is a cost in trying any idea. But who says that it has to be implemented in a large area at a high cost. It should be tried in a small area first and at the lowest possible cost. And go from there...