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Your counter argument does not account for negative externalities resulting from increase road travel. Have you ever been to LA? 16 lanes of traffic and still
by intopieces 7y ago
Your counter argument does not account for negative externalities resulting from increase road travel.
Have you ever been to LA? 16 lanes of traffic and still clogged. Poorer air quality. Suburbs miles from work.
Better yet, have you ever been to China? They are already leaning this lesson of induced demand, as have Singapore.
From too-low fuel taxes to too wide roads, driving is far too cheap in the US thanks to these subsidies. Wider highways is not the answer.
In other words, making highways wider not only does not solve congestion, it makes other problems worse in the process.
- someguydave 7y agoStanding in way of building roads is also destroying potential economic growth. Benefits come with harms; the question is how to balance them.
- intopieces 7y agoHow many roads have been expanded in the Bay Area? Not many. How has the economic growth been? Substantial. The future is remote. Unmitigated sprawl is unnecessary and harmful.
- someguydave 7y agoThe fact that some growth has happened despite a lack of road-building does not disprove that more growth could have happened if more roads were built.