Transportation

Within 1000 ft of a CDTA Bus Stop

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Most of the City of Albany is within 1000 feet of a bus stop, but that is less true in Schenectady and Troy. Albany for the most part has pretty good transit around it's interior parts, although some of the routes run less frequency.

I saw a Jaguar. 🧐

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I saw a Jaguar. 🧐

I don’t think I’ve seen many of them around lately but maybe I hang without the wrong kind of people or maybe the status symbol of choice these days for liberals is Tesla or maybe they don’t make them anymore.

I just remember that day I was a Young Democrats event, and somebody rolled up in a Jaguar. Big time lobbyist, not sure if she ended up eventually going to prison or maybe that’s somebody else I’m thinking about. She popped her clutch without giving it enough gas and stalled her Jag. Turns out even fancy British cars stall if you don’t give them enough gas.

Ever wonder what causes traffic jams on expressways? Too many cars at any particular time. 🚘

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Ever wonder what causes traffic jams on expressways? Too many cars at any particular time. 🚘

An expressway can carry 67 cars per lane mile (or 78 feet per car), without delays, but after that traffic slows because there isn’t enough space between cars, and to maintain stopping distance, motorists must reduce speed.
 
So a 6-lane expressway can carry 200 cars per mile at any particular time in one direction, smoothly. Any more then that, and traffic slows to maintain distance between cars and crashes become much more likely. Crashes tend to take lanes completely out of service for several hundred feet, which cause cascading reductions in capacity.
 
At 185 cars per lane mile (28 feet per car, or 20 feet plus 8 foot buffer), traffic comes to a complete stand still, as no more cars can fit on the highway until some motorists are able to exit the highway or move to another mile point.