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by Charles Mudede • Mar 5, 2021 at 8:45 am Those were the days. Charles Mudede What tune will we soon be singing to bad traffic? Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. According to MyNorthwest, WSDOT s COVID-19 Multimodal Transportation System Performance Dashboard shows that traffic volumes around the state are only off 3% from this time last year. Also, major routes in the Puget Sound area are now between 90% and 100% of pre-pandemic levels. And what are we to make of this? That the lockdown did nothing to change our transportation habits. We still love our cars too much. Indeed, we may even love them more in the post-pandemic period than we did in the pre-pandemic one. You do not have to wear a mask in your car. You do have to wear one (even two) on a bus or train. You do not have to social distance. You can be all the things you are and want to be while sitting forever in traffic. ....