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So like Cities Skylines but for real.
It's crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone's just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality "But I don't want to go right, I want to go straight, I'm not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I'm waiting here until that happens" as an American thing, but I guess we don't have a monopoly on it.
That too was bothering me a lot.
“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”
I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete.. the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.
They had to pose for the picture of course
The picture is of American drivers, though.
For some reason this inspired me to evil.
I propose that we tax inattentive drivers. How? By adding easily avoidable large tolls along major roadways.
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. You're driving along a stretch of long empty country road. Over the course of several miles, all sorts of signs, lights, and warnings announce that the right lane, and only the right lane, will be subject to a $100 toll. And a toll reader is set up to do just that. If you drive through the left lane, no toll. If you drive through the right lane, $100. Again, you provide plenty of warning. You would have to be half asleep, drunk, completely distracted, or drugged out of your mind to miss the signs. Hell, we'll post it in all sorts of languages even.
Now, if you're worried about a potential traffic bottleneck forming...no worries! We can hook the tolls up to a traffic counter, and the tolls are only active when traffic counts are very low. So only active during low levels of sparse traffic. And we could make all the signs electronic, so they all turn off when the tolls are inactive.
I propose we toll inattentive drivers.
Especially if you have that mod that disables traffic despawning, along with that realistic building population mod. Build one skyscraper without having a robust public transit system already in place, and it'll bring your city to its knees.