Question: What did U.S. do about designing traffic patterns ? 

Answer: Los Angeles had a design starting in the 1940s that still hasn't been fully implemented due to lobbying of Pasadena residents who don't want the freeway completed running through their neighborhoods that would help alleviate a lot of the other problems.  They have money so have influence.\n\nObviously there have been many revisions over the years.
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