Traffic Slowdown Tactics

What I have noticed is that you can slow down a lot of traffic without ever getting caught by stopping in one intersection for a short amount of time, moving on, and repeating. Not only that, but if you come on to a main street off a side street and make sure there are no cars behind you, no one can even see your license plate number (you are at a 90 degree angle from them).

You can also slow down traffic by just driving slowly. It seems to be most effective to continuous change lanes and to occupy more than one lane. I have seen one the highway patrol car stop all traffic on a 5-lane highway completely by sweeping back and forth like that, slowly decelerating. If that's the way the professionals do it, it's probably an effective tactic.

I also noticed that it is much easier and much less dangerous to block intersections in cars than to do so with mobs of pedestrians or bicycles. Not only does it take far fewer people, but if a driver does decide to ram into you, you have much more protection. I have tons of friends who have been arrested on foot, but no one I know who has blocked traffic with a car has even gotten a citation.

Convoys of cars traveling together are also extremely effective. It takes only five cars to shut down the Bay Bridge, two or three for a lot of San Francisco streets, and only two for some fo the smaller bridges like the Dumbarton bridge.

I know, it uses gas, but when you're stopping a lot and not on the highway, the amount of gas tends to be very small, and when you deter people from coming to downtown San Francisco by car at all, because of all the blockages, they actually use less gas. I'm guessing that the amount of gas used by cars doing traffic blocking is more than compensated for by the gas saved by people not coming here.

Something I thought of but didn't try was driving back and forth from San Francisco to Treasure Island really slowly. I think this would slow down the Bay Bridge without anyone having to repeatedly pay tolls to do so.