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Funny thing is, in actual real cities in which I have lived, construction (or a bad wreck) closing a road never, ever, ever has led to an improvement in the tra
by rossdavidh 5y ago
Funny thing is, in actual real cities in which I have lived, construction (or a bad wreck) closing a road never, ever, ever has led to an improvement in the traffic situation. It may be theoretically possible, but I have never seen it happen in my actual lived experience.
- deanCommie 5y agoWell, no, not in the short term, and without any other adaptation. If you have 2 roads and close one and change absolutely nothing besides everyone switching to the open one, of course things get worse. City and traffic planning is perceived as a pure "requirements implementation" project. Citizens say they want X, so let's build them X. Truth is more complex. Individuals don't frequently know what is best for the community at large. So City planning needs to influence people's behaviour as much as people's behaviour needs to influence city planning.
- simonh 5y agoThe paradox has been known since 1968 and I assume modern traffic planners are well aware of it, so it seems unlikely to me than many of our road networks will still be flawed by design in this way.
- billytetrud 5y agoYou overestimate humanity