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RE: How do you harvest your ideas?
About your intro: here in NL, the government has a theory that slowing down traffic on the highway to half the speed limit will help avoid traffic jams when it's busy. But there's always someone who slows down late and hits the brakes. Then everyone comes to a stop, and it's hard to get moving in sync. So I often end up in artificially created traffic jams, that magically dissolve after twenty minutes.
I understand the theory of slowing down traffic in a 'rolling roadbloack' in order to repair potholes (that strategy isn't employed already) but one friend last week posted that his break-down situation- a flat tyre - caused a complete stop until his car was recovered, and the same thing yesterday. How on earth can it be productive to halt all that traffic for one vehicle? Close off a lane, or maybe two, by all means, but the whole road? Not productive.
As for the theory of slowing everything down to avoid traffic jams - I have an alternate theory - speed everything up to get them off the road faster ;)