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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Accidents on multiple North-South routes.  This is  happening because capacity has been reduced on all of those and DOT is intentionally increasing congestion throughout the city as a safety measures.[/quote]

This is a factor. Also factors: Ramped-up return-to-office policies in the public and private sectors that have seen far more office worker types commuting downtown than they had been for the last five years; more aggressive driving since the pandemic (this is obviously anecdotal, but I've seen it everywhere, cities, suburbs, various states); bad luck.[/quote]

A return to the office was inevitable and very predictable.  Nothing that happened from 2020-2022 was normal.  Using that as a baseline comparison is extremely disengenuous.

The simple truth is that, in 2022, DDOT started reducing capacity on all the major routes in and out of town and changed the timing on stop lights in order to increase congestion.

This created a scenario whereby there is no excess capacity on any of the major roads.  Thus, there are no detours around a problem.  If two of those routes get hit by an incident, such as an accident or temporary road closure, the entire network becomes gridlocked.

All of this was warned about repeatedly and ignored.  The whole road diet/traffic calming project is reminiscent of what the George W. Bush administration did in Iraq.[/quote]

But also, some RTO policies have ended remote work arrangements that long predated the pandemic, and on top of that, people have been driving rather than taking Metro. You really can’t put all the blame for traffic on any one cause. No matter how much you dislike the specific cause you’re going to pick. [/quote]

Oh stop it.  The purpose of the "road diets" is literally to reduce capacity and increase congestion.  You should be happy that they are working as intended.[/quote]

I don’t drive downtown because the handful of times I did it before the pandemic were miserable, so I’d much rather metro. I have no opinion on road diets as policy. [/quote]

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