> As soon as traffic becomes reasonable because of extensive public transportation... City councils can start doing the inverse of what they’ve been doing. Tra

> As soon as traffic becomes reasonable because of extensive public transportation... City councils can start doing the inverse of what they’ve been doing. Traffic increases, so roads are widened, more parking is created, leading to more cars, and traffic increases. As traffic decreases, roads can be changed to reduce the focus on cars, and increase the focus on other forms of transport / pedestrians / additional commerce, which then serves to discourage further traffic because … there’s nowhere to create more space for cars anymore. See various European major cities (e.g. London, or less so, Madrid) for examples of this happening in real time. You can’t zip in and park next to work if there’s only a single lane of one way traffic permitted on each road, and there’s only 100 parking spaces within a 5 min walk of your office (and about 10,000 people working in that area)