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That's it. I find the examples on wiki a little sketchy and some are flat out anecdotal. I do agree it will increase the total traffic as you improve the syst
by aaron695 9y ago
That's it.
I find the examples on wiki a little sketchy and some are flat out anecdotal.
I do agree it will increase the total traffic as you improve the system but the concept it can ever make it worse or the same in the entire system doesn't make sense.
Peoples need to travel by car is not totally fluid. Jobs stay the same and many people catch public transport for reasons other than convenience.
- ghaff 9y agoI'm not sure I've heard the claim that adding capacity actually makes traffic worse other things being equal. It's more that, as you say, people will time-shift, take alternate transportation, take a different route, move, change jobs, etc. to keep a commute under a particular time. It's sort of another version of the "work expands to fill the time allotted to it" maxim. And if it's not commuting we're talking about, some people will just choose not to drive into a city for dinner, etc. because it's too much of a hassle.