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As urban life resumes, can US cities avert gridlock?

  • Written by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageIt's back: Rush-hour traffic in Los Angeles on June 15, 2021.Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Traffic is so ubiquitous in U.S. cities that until recently, imagining urban life without it meant looking to other nations for examples. Then, in 2020, COVID-19 closures and lockdowns took drivers off the roads. The thought experiment...

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