{"pk":3587,"title":"Congestion, Growth, and Public Choices","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Within a fairly short period of time, traffic congestion has eclipsed virtually every other concern -- be it crime, unemployment, or air pol­ lution -- as America's number one urban problem. Public opinion polls in San Francisco, Atlanta, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., and at least a dozen other urbanized areas show citizens are more fed up with con­ gestion than with anything else. In the Bay Area, congestion has been pegged by areawide residents as the number one public menace for four years straight, outdistancing its closest rival -- air pollution -- by more than two-to-one.\n \nSuch widespread dissatisfaction reflects, in part, the fact that con­ gestion now afflicts nearly all commuters to some degree, whether headed downtown, reverse-commuting, or traveling on a secondary road. While only a decade ago congestion was the scourge of down­ town commuters, today it pervades the freeway networks of most large and medium-sized cities.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q7459c8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cervero","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-07-31T17:48:13+01:00","date_accepted":"2012-07-31T17:48:13+01:00","date_published":"1988-07-31T08:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3587/galley/2344/download/"}]}