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 threaddavid robertsJan 7, 2023
The whole car/sprawl complex has reached such size & momentum that it just thunders on despite all this evidence -- one of many ways the US punches itself in the face over & over again while bragging about exceptionalism.
Show threadBuckJan 7, 2023
@drvolts and now it’s to the point where folks defend the way it is because of how far down that path we are …. Basically it’s “too much work to change now” is the defense, along with “this is what Americans want” … “freedom in their own cars” .. very frustrating
Show threadLed By Gilded Fools
@buck @drvolts See the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
Jan 8, 2023 at 1:39amWeb