This makes sense to me.  I hope it is legislated.  I detest tailgaters.

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Theres a lot of roadworks for me at the moment to contend with. Essentially out of the suburb I live in to get to main part of Canberra I work in there are 4 decent roads I can use. 2 are currently undergoing duplication and a third is having the tram put on it. Traffic jams every day.


I think this has merit, but also the other issue is people who try and get around the jam currentl;y by driving through an empty suburb and rejoining furhter down. It backs traffic up more because people stop to let them in.


Its also affecting the cycling. I don't like cycling on the roadwork sections because theres not enough room for my bike and for cars, and they are progressively blocking all the paths I can use to go home with.

This has nothing to do with congestion on your daily commute. It's just about those phantom traffic jams in the middle of a long stretch of regional freeway that have no obvious cause. The traffic speeds up after them. I doubt it would improve travel times much, and in the hands of bureacrats would just be an excuse to slow traffic when it is not needed.

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If you are doing that in the city you are causing traffic jams, not preventing them. You cannot smooth out traffic lights. All you will do is reduce the number of vehicles getting through on a green.

The_Barnacle wrote on Aug 30^th, 2018 at 12:08pm:


That's it.

Country/Rural people can drive, but they can't park properly.
City people can't drive, but they can park on a dime.
It's obvious, which one of the two is more important.
But Sydney & Melbourne are the false prophets of Australian culture for starters. One is Chinese, the other thinks its in China.

Of course - these two cities keep trying to squeeze more people in - for money. They can't say "We're full. Sorry." They don't know when to stop and hence why Melbourne is an accident and Sydney was designed to keep people employed fixing it all the time.

Things will only get worse in those two cities, never better. Their glory days are long gone since the year 2000 clicked over and they 'sold their souls' for the fast money, via a slow traffic crawl.

The Japanese Professors said "Ants don't have traffic jams".

He needs to look at more than orderly little Japanese ants 

Go to Africa & see how African Driver Ants go ....

if this isn't a traffic jam then what is it? 

Oh, yes... I can just see motorists leaving a 40 meter gap between themselves and the car in front. Never going to happen.

Here in Perth all you have to do is leave a gap of slightly more than a car length between yourself and the car in front and someone will cut in front of you - regardless of the speed limit. Even at 100km/h on the freeways.

This is probably one of the reasons why there's so much tailgating these days.