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[cqholt]

Adding more lanes only increases congestion. There are hundreds of studies to prove that people will change their driving pattern to use the new highway capacity. The only way to reduce congestion is add mass transit and congestion based pricing in the corridor. That is how NY and several European cities have reduced congestion.

[thumpcbd]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Adding more lanes only increases congestion. There are hundreds of studies to prove that people will change their driving pattern to use the new highway capacity. The only way to reduce congestion is add mass transit and congestion based pricing in the corridor. That is how NY and several European cities have reduced congestion.

Dammit, CQHolt quit making sense!

For those that aren't familiar with the studies cqholt is referencing the basic theory is doubling the number of lanes on a road doubles the Vehicle Miles Traveled inducing sprawl.

http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/wor...tecipa-370.pdf
Study: More Roads = More Traffic | Sightline Daily

Yes, it's a chicken and egg problem between transit and density, but we can't afford to chase "growth" in cities where they simply grow outward, we need to begin to shift to focusing "growth" into terms of density, connectivity of persons in industrial, commercial and residential areas. There is a reason in older cities, why certain industries are clustered together despite being competitors, there are natural synergies they derived from people coming to the area to simply find a service. (Think of how restaurants today generally cluster together and most folks don't know what they want to eat, but will travel to restaurant row, see what is around and select once present.