Yeah, I used to think that way. I grew up in the suburbs of the concrete jungle that is Houston, Texas. It now has a 26 lane highway running west of the city.

Yeah, I used to think that way. I grew up in the suburbs of the concrete jungle that is Houston, Texas. It now has a 26 lane highway running west of the city. The problem is that building more roads doesn't help. Expanding major arteries encourages people to move further out, which makes it worse. Additionally, we've used up all the easy and inexpensive places to build roads. Northern Virginia is actually doing a decent job of encouraging high-density housing in mixed-use environments with access to mass transit. It seems odd that S.V. is so backwards in this way.