Interesting transportation things

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Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html

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- When a congested road is widened, travel times go down at first. But then people change their behaviors. After hearing a highway is less busy, commuters might switch from transit to driving or change the route they take to work. Some may even choose to move farther away.

- Officials from the Texas Department of Transportation said the Katy expansion provided the capacity needed to keep up with projected population growth in the Houston area. “Expanding roads does not create more congestion,” transportation officials said in a statement. Rather, they said, it “helps to manage new travel demand.”

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