Traffic again

It's getting worse. It's getting so unbearable worse I dread getting behind the wheel in Chicago. It's getting to the point where you pretty much have to expect slowing to a crawl at some point during every excursion, and you need to add about 20 onto your initial ETA. If it's not the people it's the taxis, and the other cars and damn ambulances and the paddy wagons. did I mention the taxis? Times like these I wish I lived closer to the train because I would ditch my car and hop on. It's also times like these when I wish a second level of roadway could be built, allowing traffic to flow about 100 feet in the air, a la the Firth Element, sort of. Anything to get the damn roads to clear up in Chicago. Oh, and taxis drivers should be forced to take bi-yearly driving tests as well as general courtesy reality checks.