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This morning's 2 hour farcical commute got me to thinking - What can I actually do about it? and it was then, as I was cursing the government and the system and ' the man' that it dawned on me that we were actually a big part of the problem and if that was the case we actually have an opportunity to make a change. Multiply this lost time out across the city and you're into millions in lost revenue, not to mention the stress and aggravation it causes the commuter - i'd be fairly confident in assuming more than one individual has been tipped over the edge thanks to commuter stress over the years. This is 2 hours lost to my employer that i'm going to struggle to make up - why? because I have to leave on time to collect my kids from the child minder. This morning for example, I'm 2 hours late for work because there was an incident on the motorway (there was a minor fender bender in the inside lane with no injuries and minimal damage). On roughly 3 out of 5 days a week my standard commute time of 40 mins (already double what it actually should take to get to my destination) will take upwards of an hour and a half. The net result for the commuter? Hours and hours of abject misery, sat in traffic jams, week after week. Throughout the city there are multiple incidents, crashes, breakdowns, fender benders, spills and other minor issues, all of which have a knock-on effect on the arteries that feed into the city. The issue arises when everything is not running smoothly and that, unfortunately is every day. "The M50 alone experiences over 120 incidents a month and rush 'hour' now lasts 8 hours! from 7am - 10am and 3pm - 7pm" Like a lot of capital cities Dublin's road infrastructure is over capacity and bursting at the seams. On a weekday it usually takes double that, which is fair enough and kind of what you'd expect living so close to the capital. On a weekend, with minimal traffic, driving in to work takes about 20 minutes and is a mixture of motorway, dual carriageway and urban roads. I live in a large village about 20km outside of Dublin and about 15km from MicksGarage HQ. When everything is running smoothly and there are no incidents the motorway network which feeds the city just about copes with the volume of traffic. The M50 alone (which is the main motorway around Dublin city) experiences over 120 incidents a month and rush 'hour' now lasts 8 hours! from 7am - 10am and 3pm - 7pm. Now before you all get too defensive, of course I accept that commuter routes are overcrowded, the sheer volume of traffic on our roads has them at breaking point, infrastructure could be improved and public transport should be better but the pointy finger of blame when it comes to some of the gridlock and motorway mayhem points at us, the motorist.
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it's because we drive like idiots! That's right, a large part of the problem is us.
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We can only endure it for now," he said.Do you know one of the main reasons there are so many traffic jams these days? I'll tell you why. "This is homework for the next 30, 40 years. "That is why we have started building a train-based transportation system, at least it can solve the problem gradually," he said.īasuki said Jakarta's traffic was his biggest challenge in governing the capital and it would take decades until the city would overcome the problem. Even Japan still has traffic congestion, let alone Jakarta," Basuki said on Wednesday. If you don't have a train-based transportation system, there will be traffic congestion. He said he was unhappy with the index but did not deny his city had the worst traffic in the world. The results won't surprise many commuters in the capital and Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama admitted there was more to do.
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The index, which was put together using the GPS data provided by Tom Tom navigation users, said drivers experiencing more than 18,000 stop-starts a year experienced "severe" traffic. Motorists in Istanbul, Turkey, which took the number two spot on the index, registered 32.520 stop-starts annually while drivers in Mexico City, number three on the list, recorded 30,840 stop-starts on average.Īt the other end of the scale, drivers in Rotterdam in the Netherlands registered 6360 stop-starts a year. Drivers in Jakarta made 33,240 stop-starts annually, the study found, while drivers in Surabaya made 29,880.