david robertsJan 7, 2023
An excellent question. The "traffic engineer" profession is deeply broken. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html
Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?

With billions of dollars available to improve transportation infrastructure, states have a chance to try new strategies for addressing congestion. But some habits are hard to break.

The New York Times
Show threaddavid robertsJan 7, 2023

We now have overwhelming evidence from a million different directions that sprawly car culture *doesn't work*. Suburbs don't pay for themselves. More lanes don't decrease traffic. Stroads kill people & inhibit economic growth. Parking is economic deadweight.

We refuse to learn.

Show threadhopeless wanderer
@drvolts the problem with more lanes is that to actually resolve traffic you would need so many lanes the roads would take up more space than housing
Jan 7, 2023 at 8:05pmWeb