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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is so sad to see otherwise smart people be so dumb about planning and transportation.

I remember when 270 was 2 lanes in each direction. For 45 years, the county has expanded the number of lanes, the local lanes, the X crossover exchanges, and yet, we still have a lot of bumper to bumper car traffic with corresponding dirty air and health impacts.

Time to do something else, what has been happening since the 1970's clearly isn't working.[/quote]

Whatever the question, the answer is always: more roads. Traffic congested? Widen the highway! Traffic not congested? Widen the highway! It's amazing, in a really depressing way.[/quote]
Should the answer be less roads? Is zero roads the ideal number? Do you believe that Star Trek style teleportation is real?[/quote]

The answer is, building and widening roads doesn't lead to better traffic flow. If the goal is moving people efficiently, then single occupancy cars is the least efficient manner possible. Just about anything - mass transit, bikes, whatever, is a better use of time, space  and money.[/quote]
Do you have an example of a suburban county in the US realizing your goal absent the economic growth facilitated by cars on roads?

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DP. Since basically every suburban county has gone all-in on the build-roads-for-cars strategy, there are no examples of counties that haven't done that.[/quote]

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