Listen Up, Atlanta!

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63481/title/To_tame_traffic%2C_go_with_the_flow

By tracking input and output flows at individual traffic lights, scientists in Germany found a way to modulate traffic flow from the bottom up. The numbers are staggering - public transit vehicles' time spent stuck in traffic was cut by MORE THAN HALF.

Listen up Atlanta - it's time to be smart about traffic. We don't actually have that many people. In fact, the population density of Atlanta is only about 4,000 people per square mile; we're not even in the top hundred (#125 on the list has us beat by two-and-a-half times). Again, the problem isn't congestion - it's idiotic city planning. Here's hoping somebody with some clout reads this article.