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Transportation wonks have known for a long time that widening roads doesn't relieve congestion. (At least not long-term; it works initially, but all the gains are typically erased within five years.) Of course, the general public is loath to believe such a thing because it's really counterintuitive. I I biked from El Paso to Austin with a friend of mine once who couldn't believe it.
Here's a current NYT article on the topic, and a scientific paper which examines and measures the lack of success.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/w … affic.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a … 0X18301720
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A local group recently protested the I-35 expansion, with one holding a sign that read "MORE LANES = MORE TRAFFIC".
It's amazing to me how much things have changed over the years. When I started bike/transpo advocacy back in the 90s, it was a pretty lonely space. Now there's widespread agreement that more cars and more highways aren't the answer. Similarly, I was vegan in the 80s ("long before it was fashionable", as I like to say), and back then I asked a waitress at Austin's (then) only (!) vegetarian restaurant whether something on the menu was vegan, and she didn't know what that word meant. At a vegetarian restaurant. These days you can't throw a carrot in Austin without hitting a vegan, or some plant-based product at HEB.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/20 … -the-week/
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