> More lanes helps because now more people are able to get where they want to go! I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but no one wants to get to the 5 or 6

> More lanes helps because now more people are able to get where they want to go! I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but no one wants to get to the 5 or 6 lane highway. They are using the highway to get to smaller 1-2 lane surface roads and parking areas with limited capacity. Eventually you will hit a bottleneck in surface roads or parking that you cannot improve easily or cheaply. The larger highways only serve to get people to the bottlenecks in the system faster.