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Highway Congestion 2024

Cameron on Transportation
Highway congestion traffic congestion traffic jam

Solutions That Don’t Solve the Congested Traffic on I-95 and the Merritt, and Some Fixes That Help

By JIM CAMERON | 12 mins ago
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While I’m on vacation this week I thought I’d revisit a commentary I wrote in 2014. Judge for yourself how little has changed in 11 years. Everybody loves to complain about our traffic. And for some, the solutions are simple, if impractical. If there were easy answers to our woes, they’d have been implemented by now.

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