Preferred transportation improvements to overcome travel delay
problems
Top preferred improvements relate to better management and operation.
Those surveyed were asked to respond to the transportation improvements
they thought would help them overcome travel problems they experience.
The "great help" responses are as follows: more durable
paving materials (67%), repairs during non-rush hours (66%), reducing
repair time (52%), improving traffic signal timing (50%), clearing
accidents quickly (43%), adding more travel lanes (42%), signs showing
expected roadwork (37%), checking traffic signals often (36%), managing
traffic congestion better (35%), tow trucks at key locations (31%),
signs with emergency phone (31%), improving public transportation
(30%), re-routing traffic to avoid roadwork (28%), managing traffic
around roadwork (28%), reversing travel lanes (28%), installing
more left turn signals (27%), increasing roadside assistance patrols
(23%), signals on freeway entrances (23%), adding more HOV lanes
(21%), improving accuracy/timeliness of information (17%), improving
roadway signs and markings (17%), and fewer traffic signals (14%).
The source of this data is the Operations and Planning/Environment
Survey.
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