What happened to the 90,000 cars a day the viaduct carried before it closed?(seattletimes.com)
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What happened to the 90,000 cars a day the viaduct carried before it closed?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/the-cars-just-disappeared-what-happened-to-the-90000-cars-a-day-the-viaduct-carried-before-it-closed/
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They probably stayed home because they expected traffic to be really bad based on the media labeling it "Viadoom". Now that they've heard traffic isn't that bad it will get worse.
Week two was definitely worse than week one as people got lulled into complacency I think. I walk through the city every week day during commute time, and the first week was surprisingly light of traffic, and the crowds for the bus were visibly larger. Last week, bus crowds still seemed large but suddenly traffic through downtown was very backed up.
Postulated in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
yep, just close all the roads and the cars just disappear!
seattle has got it all figured out