Dallas Trying to Ease the Pain Behind the Wheel

[Erin Barrington]

In a recent article/blog from August 2013, the city of Dallas claims to begin working to "ease traffic congestion". We can only hope! Every day, no matter what time, there is always at least one back up somewhere in the city.  Starting in October, transportation officials were supposedly going to introduce something called "Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) on highway 75.  The officials claimed that drivers will receive a more "reliable trip with less congestion".  I have to say as a resident of this crowded city that drives down central every day, this new program is simply just not working.  I am all for different programs and ideas to be put in place to help the flow of traffic but this is my thought: Dallas is just so crowded that there are way too many people for the roadways that are in place today.  We have so many people trying to go to the same place at the same time and there really may be no cure for that.  I was also not surprised to read that Dallas is the 5th most congested city in the US and the author goes on to say "and only getting worse"... great.  I look forward to seeing if these different programs in place to help traffic flow will make a difference in the future; however, as for now, it seems as though traffic gets worse by the day.  There really may be no solution to this riddle of overcrowding in the city of Dallas.  

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