Clean Air Campaign shows how stupid we look in gridlock
June 5, 2009 at 11:20 am by Thomas Wheatley in News
The Clean Air Campaign, an Atlanta-based booster of alternate commuting, has posted a video that shows how foolish the estimated 60 percent of metro Atlantans who drive to work by themselves actually look — minus the steel, LCD screens playing “The View,” and dusty coffee tumblers that have surely caked your cloth interior with Maxwell House juice.
The animation then shows the effect that shared commutes, teleworking and riding transit could have on road capacity. Big difference.
To view the campaign’s animation, click the screenshot to the right.
For more information about how to connect with rideshare buds, transit options, teleworking tools and other ways you can join the more than 350,000 metro Atlantans who don’t drive to work by themselves, visit the Clean Air Campaign’s “Improve Your Commute” page. The campaign also offers incentives to motorists who give alternate commuting a shot.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
This video is cool, we do look stupid and we do need better transit, but…
I think a big part of the gridlock problem in Atlanta has to do with bad development practices. I think improvements in transit should go hand in hand with improvements to residential/commercial development practices and adjustments to existing developments.
Too damn much affordable housing is too damn far from where the jobs are and where the groceries are and the daycare and the places to buy underwear, etc. Of course the roads are choked — we have to drive 10 miles on them to do every single task.