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Originally Posted by NB_ExistsToo
It looks like this article is reaching quite a bit. Even their graph shows there's an initial benefit to increasing lanes, but the side effect is infrastructure is then built up.... this could be from increased housing, businesses, etc just capturing the benefits of the new road.
So the article just states "more roads... more buildings... more traffic" But that's mostly because city populations continue to increase, that traffic has to go somewhere.
Look at SJ, we have a nice divided highway out to Quispamsis, but really the traffic is non-existent, mostly because the population has been stagnant/decreasing for decades.
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Of course there's an initial benefit. No one disputes that. The problem is that the long term effect is that the road just becomes busy again. If the issue you are looking to solve is that there is congestion, then building more lanes doesn't solve that. All you're doing is inviting more traffic, which causes more problems.