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[quote=Anonymous]Newsflash dimwitted drivers: study after study after study has shown that more lanes and roads don't reduce traffic and congestion at all.  You know what more lanes and roads do?  They end up encouraging people to keep living further and further out and drive more and more, which ends up causing more traffic and not solving anything.  We waste billions of dollars building and maintaining more and more roads, yet traffic keeps getting worse.  Just look at Texas - it is a dystopian urban planning sh!thole. Many of their cites have 5 lanes roads and highways that are massively wide. And guess what? They still have nightmarish traffic.

US infrastructure and urban planning is a disaster. We have tried the stupid experiment of more roads constantly for the last 80 years, yet traffic in the DMV is horrific.  Go to a country with way better infrastructure and urban planning where stupid ass cars aren't the main focus of infrastructure. It is so much more amazing getting around with zero cars. Plus there are far fewer fat asses like Americans because people actually walk every day instead of driving.  You also save huge amounts of money by not pissing away tens of thousands of dollars buying stupid cars, and on maintenence/fuel/insurance.

The more roads experiment has failed. Accept defeat graciously.  Make it much more difficult to drive. That way habits change. More bike lanes. More closed roads.  More nightmarish traffic that crushes peoples' souls into bone dust so they're too traumatized to drive anywhere.[/quote]

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