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knuckle commented on Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta   nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/dizzant
JacesArchivist · 3 years ago
Atlanta native; I haven't dug into the design of the study, but I am supremely skeptical of these results. There is a huge influx of new residents right now (and likely for the foreseeable future). That in concert with a renewed push for working from the office likely accounts for any increase in congestion seen any time recently. The city yearns for more public transport, but it is hard to imagine that 10% of all the insane traffic is directly related to a ban on this relatively new mode of transport.
knuckle · 3 years ago
From the paper:

The micromobility ban was implemented in the city of Atlanta on 9 August 2019. We use high-resolution data from 25 June 2019 to 22 September 2019 from Uber Movement to measure changes in evening travel times between 7:00 p.m. and midnight

The data was very specific to evenings in certain areas.

knuckle commented on Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta   nature.com/articles/s4156... · Posted by u/dizzant
dagmx · 3 years ago
And you live in all of Atlanta I take it? Would you even be able to notice a 10% increase?
knuckle · 3 years ago
Atlanta is huge. It can take two hours at highway speeds to get through it. Most routes do not allow for scooters. I think it's obvious that banning scooters cannot have had impact on most commute routes. This conclusion needs to be more specific about commute routes impacted to help folks learn from the data.

I think they also need to discuss other projects which impacted commute times at the time. For example, major work on the GA400/I285 intersection began at that time. Changes to I75 and its dedicated pay lanes was underway. Those two routes are used by huge numbers of commuters every day and the impact was huge.

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