mondoman712@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago90% of City Planners QUIT ONE LANE Before Fixing Traffic Foreverwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down16
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minus-squareapprehensively_human@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·10 months agoAn extra lane doubles capacity, so best case scenario you’d be looking at is traffic jams that go up to 15km, for a while. Building more lanes makes it easier to drive and so more people are going to. You can’t solve traffic this way due to induced demand.
minus-squareCronyAkatsukiAlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-210 months agoYea I can see that happening, I was mostly sarcastic at the fact there are countries that stuggle with god know how many lanes and us who have max 4. Edit: The biggest problem here in total is the complete lack of public transport.
An extra lane doubles capacity, so best case scenario you’d be looking at is traffic jams that go up to 15km, for a while.
Building more lanes makes it easier to drive and so more people are going to. You can’t solve traffic this way due to induced demand.
Yea I can see that happening, I was mostly sarcastic at the fact there are countries that stuggle with god know how many lanes and us who have max 4.
Edit: The biggest problem here in total is the complete lack of public transport.