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Do roads not get crowded where you live? Here in Silicon Valley, there's no more room to widen 101.
by greglindahl 7y ago
Do roads not get crowded where you live?
Here in Silicon Valley, there's no more room to widen 101.
- ben_w 7y agoRoads always get crowded; broadly speaking, making them wider increases the number of people willing to use them until they fill up again.
- AstralStorm 7y agoThey do, but not enough to ensure longer distances are inefficient. And especially the "ingress" roads do not block - from suburbs and further districts. Now that is Poland, Warsaw, the city is designed to be more car friendly than most capitals in EU, more spread out, while still keeping strong public transport and bike as options. The parts that block up are near choke points, City center, bridges, some big intersections.