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Originally Posted by JAM
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that's not a paper, that's an op-ed.
Among other things, that means no peer review.
I've noted about 10 falsehoods just in glancing at it. Just to start:
"Where road expansion is possible, it should be carried out. Where a road expansion is impossible, a second level of roadway should be built as has been done in Kobe, Japan, Chicago in the U.S. and many other places in the world. A second level of roads in Kobe, Japan, is shown in Figure 1. A second floor of traffic lanes on the highway was built in Iran across Tehran as well. Any road can be expanded, and money saved from eliminated rail system subsidies can be used for this expansion."
"Any road can be expanded". This is quite obviously false. You can only go up or down so many levels. We're in the process of going to 3 levels for I35. That's going to be it (or expansion would be so mindboggling expensive we'd never afford it).
It's also amusing (in a sad way) that the highway segment in Israel he calls out as being uncongested is currently Orange in google maps (at almost 7PM local time).