Personal Narrative: Our Lady Of Lavang

The town of Halton Hill’s population includes the areas of Georgetown and Acton and other communities such as Erin, Oakville, Burlington and Milton regions. This is what is considered to be my community because these are the many places that I am visiting most often and they are always referred to together as “Halton Hills Region” (p.5, 2011). With the substantial increase in population in the Halton Hills region, more specifically Georgetown, there should be a strong demand for a public transit system to counteract all of the environmental disturbances that are being caused due to this increase. One of the things that is happening is that there are so many trees they are cutting down in order to expand and grow the population with houses being built. Statistics are showing that the population of Halton Hill’s region will expand by 54% over the next 20 years (p.5, 2011). By the year 2031, employment rates will increase by 75%, leaving Halton with 42,100 jobs being offered (p.5, 2011). With this rapid influx of citizens, this will only increase the demands of travel to get to these work places as well as other destinations (p.5, 2011). Over the past couple of year’s the traffic congestion on the major roads in Halton Hills such as Trafalgar Road and Regional Road 25 with individuals trying to get to and from work. There used to be very little traffic in these areas, however since Halton Hill’s has continued to expand, the utilization of automobiles has significantly increased due to the fact there is no public transit system. The Transportation Demand Management in Halton Hill’s is noticing the increase in automobiles stating that there needs to be a major shift in more efficient ways of transportation, yet there still has been nothing improvised (p.7, 2011). The Transportation Demand

Traffic jams are feared and hate by many due to the challenges like wasting time. While traveling from one place to the other one always wishes to reach the destination early enough, but in the case of the traffic jams this usually changes. A person is often late to work, class or any other place a person was wishing to be. In some of the case, people have lost their jobs since they could not make it to work on time due to the traffic jam. It is important to identify that traffic jam in Los Angeles is more of the increase in the number of vehicles (Bento et al. 44). It has been identified that in the days when the fuel prices are low there tends to be a large number of vehicles in town unlike when the prices are high. The increase of the motor vehicles and the jam has led to people engaging into other activities while driving.

The addition of 44 houses will roughly add another 88 cars to the traffic flow of the area. With the additional cars added to the small road an emergency could end up being fatal if people could not go and come quickly, which could also then force another road to be built. With more traffic close to two schools there is also a greater risk of children getting hit by cars crossing streets and roads.

When traffic is beyond ridiculous, there’s no surprise when Houston motorists lose approximately $1,090 every year due to the high volumes of vehicles on the road. The congestion is hurting more than just individual drivers; businesses requiring trucking receive an astonishing $646M hit from time lost during these hold ups, which is up from $490M in 2007 (Begley). As Houston grows and seeing as road development is already behind, we can only expect such expenses to increase throughout the decade. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said it best, “(the challenge) is just trying to stay where we are” (Begley).

“By removing a lane of traffic, we create a traffic calming and pedestrian friendly downtown,” says Dave Lustberg, CEO of Arterial, LLC., the company engaged by Millburn to design the Complete Streets project. Lustberg acknowledges there will be an initial period of 'strife' as drivers grow accustomed to the new layout, but stresses that studies show that even reducing vehicle speed 5mph from 30 to 25 reduces the chances of fatality in vehicle vs. pedestrian accidents by 35%.

As your driving, down Bees Ferry road you notice that there are more, than enough traffic lights in one spot. As if you’re on Glenn Mcconnell in between south state bank & The Home Depot. The traffic is unsatisfactory you have drivers that won’t be curCY and let you over. Causing you to be stuck in the same spot for an additional 2 to 3 minutes, everyone’s trying to go ahead and merge on I-526. A traffic light added in between South State Bank & The Home Depot will eliminate some traffic. “Asserts that it is 4-way crossing most of the traffic is heading straight or turning left heading towards I-526”

Walking away from everything you once knew and starting over is never a picnic. Leaving Iraq, and moving to America has impacted my life more than anything. I was only 4 years old at that time, and the only English I spoke was “excuse me, water please.” My family and I did not know it then, but our lives were going to change; we would become “Americanized”. Learning English was one of the massive changes that occurred, the way I dressed (culture), and even the way I had power to go to school and educate myself.

Recently, I have brought to your attention the need to install a traffic light at the intersection of Dunn’s Crossroads, in the town of Elm City. The reasoning behind this recommendation is due to the many people who have been in accidents at this intersection. Some accidents have resulted in serious injuries and/or fatalities. As a result of these countless accidents, a while back, the town did place a four-way stop there. However, it hasn’t seemed to reduce the amount of accidents or confusion that occurs. By installing this traffic light, these issues will be eliminated.

In my junior year of high school, I started dating a girl with whom I would get into a serious relationship with. We grew close and shared our deepest secrets, and I genuinely loved this girl. However, this relationship shattered when I found our she had cheated on me by sleeping with my best friend. I was in a dark place after the event. I retracted myself from society and locked myself in my room only to come out for food. I became cold and saw the world as a cruel joke placed upon its inhabitants. I believed everyone had a side of evil, and that I could trust no one. However, I spent a week of that summer in a program called Marianist LIFE. The program preached to its participants to build Christian communities. There I met kindhearted people

Recently there was a massive traffic jam stretching across New Hampshire. If this could be caused by one single accident, what could happen with a major 20 car pileup? This is why a major widening is needed. However, this will cost many millions of

The Interstate Highway System has gotten better over the past years but it’s the little things that can be a big problem in the end. In the past, the highway system was worse than it is today. Back then there weren’t a big amount of highways; most of the roads were dirt roads and that was a HUGE problem. Due to there not being many roads I’m sure that caused traffic to be a big problem. I’m sure it wasn’t safe to drive on those dirt roads if the weather was bad such as it being windy or it raining. There needed to be a change made for EASIER, SAFER, and QUICKER highways.

Table 6 shows percent increase and decrease in performance measures for different pairs of lane configurations. Each of the three base scenario lane configurations(1, 2 and 3) was paired with at least one of the nine non base lane configurations(4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12). The pairings were based on the same number of lanes on both the major and minor street approaches. For instance, lane configuration 1 paired with lane configuration 4 and lane configuration 1 paired with lane configuration 7, with lane configuration 1 being a base lane configuration with single lanes on both major and minor streets. While lane configuration 4 is a non-base lane configuration with also single shared lanes on both major and minor streets. Similarly, lane configuration

With Atlanta’s ever growing traffic issues, something must be done to stem the flow of increasing congestion levels. At this point, a viable option seems to be express lanes. This possibility involves either repurposing a pre-existing lane or building a new lane that functions as a lane meant for fast moving traffic. This lane’s traffic would have no intention of stopping, similar to a high-occupancy vehicle lane. However, unlike high-occupancy vehicle lanes, these expressways do not directly incentivize carpooling. Instead, they equate money to time lost, which is a much stronger method to incentivize people. Tolled expressways were chosen for their versatility and wide ability of implementation and use. Exits to the toll lanes are placed

This will help solve the problem because it gives bikers a safe, out of the way, place to ride their bikes.It also gives them the ability to drive as fast and slow as they want and still take the route they want to take. Two locations that are crowded with bikers without bike lanes are highway eleven and King home drive. King home drive is a very dangerous place to ride a bike because it is near an elementary school so, you are not only having a possibility of your life in danger but also little kids life in danger. This solution will work because it will give bikers a safe way to ride their bikes out of the way of big and bulky cars, and stay out of traffic but still take the route they want to

New Roads shared space design has had an impressive design impact. Traffic volumes have reduced by 93%, and vehicle speeds remain below 20km/hr. The road has many physical features that occupy the street such as benches, restaurant, and café and bar seating, vegetation and pedestrian dominated, with a carriageway width of 3.0 metres.