🚗 Enough Is Enough: Why We Shouldn’t Accept Traffic as “Just the Way It Is”
This morning on my way to work, I found myself in one of those maddening, slow-motion parades that defines weekday mornings near JFK Airport.
Three miles of brake lights, engines idling, and people silently suffering in their cars.
On the other side of the highway, a single utility truck sat parked near a telephone pole. Maybe there’d been a small accident earlier. Maybe they were just doing routine maintenance. Whatever it was, that one truck — one tiny disruption — managed to freeze tens of thousands of people in their tracks.
And here’s what blows my mind: we’ve all just accepted it.
We’ve Become Numb to the Gridlock
We don’t question why a minor fender-bender in the right lane can paralyze an entire city’s commute.
We don’t demand answers from traffic engineers or city planners.
We don’t hold politicians accountable for decades of “transportation studies” that never seem to change anything.
Instead, we scroll through our phones, sip our coffee, and kill time — because what else can we do?
We’ve been conditioned to think this is normal.
But it’s not normal. It’s broken.
Where Are the Solutions?
This isn’t just an inconvenience; it’s an economic and psychological drain.
Every minute lost in traffic means wasted fuel, missed meetings, stress, and pollution.
We have AI that can predict the weather, drones that deliver packages, and satellites that map our planet in real time — yet we still can’t move cars efficiently through a city?
It’s time for engineers, city planners, and leaders to treat this like the crisis it is.
We need:
- Smarter traffic-signal algorithms that adapt dynamically.
- Emergency protocols to reroute flow instantly after an incident.
- Infrastructure designed for resilience — not reaction.
- Real accountability when gridlock becomes chronic.
Until flying cars actually work, we need the roads we have to function like they belong in the twenty-first century.
The Bigger Problem: Apathy
What scares me most isn’t the traffic — it’s the silence.
People have stopped caring.
We sit in line for forty minutes, scroll through TikTok, and call it “me time.”
We’ve given up demanding better, because we’ve been stuck so long that immobility feels like routine.
But I refuse to accept that this is life.
This is fixable. We can be smarter. We can design better. We can care again.
A Call to Action
I want America to say, “Enough.”
Enough waiting, enough idling, enough accepting inefficiency as destiny.
We should be challenging our local leaders, transportation departments, and state governments to find modern, intelligent solutions to a decades-old problem.
Because the next time you’re sitting in traffic — whether it’s caused by an accident, a work truck, or just bad design — remember: it’s not the universe conspiring against you.
It’s a system that needs to change.
And maybe, just maybe, it’s time we all roll down our windows and shout it together —
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
🛑 I’m Anonymous Andrew, and this has been another Weekend Rant. Because sitting still has never solved anything.