Saturday July 21, 2006
The “express lanes” in Thailand. We were driving back from the apartment search and there were 4 orange cones on our side of the 4 lane highway, kind of picture the Viaduct in Seattle with two lanes of traffic going both ways. They had blocked off one of our lanes for incoming traffic, with orange cones just a few hundred yards apart. It was 5:30. Rush hour traffic. And that was the solution. All of the cars facing us were crawling, but we were speeding by. It just seemed like a genius idea. Why does the flow of traffic need two lanes? Give one up for the slow flow. I think I will write to Mayor Greg Nickels. I think I have Seattle’s traffic problem solved…just learn from the Thai way. It works.
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