The Monday Morning Commute, with award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha: Determining traffic lanes
By Paul Basha, Kayla Amado of Summit Land Management How do traffic engineers determine the number of traffic lanes and whether there should be one or two left-turn lanes and whether or not right-turn lanes should exist? Number of cars and trucks. Generally, one through lane on a typical street can accommodate 8,000 daily vehicles. […]
The Monday Morning Commute, with award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha on the prospects for extensive intercity and intracity rail systems in the U.S.
By Paul Basha, Kayla Amado of Summit Land Management Thank you for your lengthy detailed article about the absence of rail systems in the United States. Fascinating to learn all that history about trains and cars. I’m also a fan of subways, light rail, and train travel. However, do you really think that we could […]
The Monday Morning Commute, with award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha: Commuter rail systems in the U.S. — where art thou?
(Disclosure: Summit Land Management is a Rose Law Group-related company and contracted with the firm.) By Paul Basha, Kayla Amado of Summit Land Management I recently returned from a three-week vacation throughout Europe. We used the extensive rail system to visit much of many of the countries: so very convenient! Why do we not have […]
The Monday Morning Commute, with award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha: Left-turn lanes & arrow lengths
(Disclosure: Summit Land Management is a Rose Law Group-related company and contracted with the firm.) By Paul Basha, Kayla Amado of Summit Land Management Thank you for your two recent articles on pedestrian countdown clocks and signals. Good to know that pedestrian and vehicle signals are completely separate, and that I need to push the pedestrian button to have enough time to […]
The Monday Morning Commute, with award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha: Green lights and pedestrian WALK signals
(Disclosure: Summit Land Management is a Rose Law Group-related company and contracted with the firm.) By Paul Basha, Kayla Amado of Summit Land Management Thank you for your two recent articles on pedestrian countdown clocks and signals. Good to know that pedestrian and vehicle signals are completely separate, and that I need to push the […]
The Monday Morning Commute, wth award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha on pedestrian push buttons
(Disclosure: Summit Land Management is a Rose Law Group-related company and contracted with the firm.) By Traffic Engineer Paul Basha, Kayla Amado | Summit Land Management Thank you for your article on pedestrian countdown clocks. Very helpful understanding things I see every day that I did not understand before. That led me to related questions. […]
The Monday Morning Commute, with award-winning traffic engineer Paul Basha… Pedestrian countdown clocks
(Disclosure: Summit Land Management is a Rose Law Group-related company and contracted with the firm.) By Traffic Engineer Paul Basha, Kayla Amado | Summit Land Management “I like the clocks on the walk and don’t walk signals. Though sometimes when the clock shows 0 seconds, the green light stays on. Why is that?“ Contrary to […]
Monday Morning Commute: Ask traffic engineer Paul Basha… What is the difference between roundabouts and traffic circles?
The Western Spirit Museum of the West at Marshall and Main By Paul Basha, Summit Land Management Traffic Engineer Roundabouts are larger, traffic circles are smaller. Once upon a time, there was minimal difference between roundabouts and traffic circles. As designs have advanced in the past 10 to 20 years, there are dramatic design differences […]
Monday Morning Commute: Ask traffic engineer Paul Basha… How does metro Phoenix traffic congestion compare to other U.S. cities?
By Paul Basha, Summit Land Management Traffic Engineer I think traffic congestion in Phoenix is bad and getting worse. Friends from other parts of the country who visit me here think I’m crazy. They tell me there’s very little congestion here. Are they right? Thanks for asking. The traffic engineers at the Texas A & […]
Monday Morning Commute: Ask traffic engineer Paul Basha… Are the drunk driving laws in the U.S. effective?
By Paul Basha, Summit Land Management Traffic Engineer I’m a big hockey fan. The untimely death at 31 years old, of Johnny Hockey (Gaudreau) and his younger brother, while bicycling in New Jersey, at the hands of a drunk driver, disturbs me deeply. Are the drunk driving laws in the United States effective? Sad, indeed. […]