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Freeway Building Won't Solve Congestion Problem

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
13 June 2003 - 7:00am

Studies have shown that building freeways only makes the traffic congestion problem worse.

"What if, after spending $6.25 billion to rebuild and widen metro area freeways in the name of relieving congestion, we just make it worse?..It seems counterintuitive. But I've been plodding through an impressive pile-up of studies that come to basically the same conclusion: Freeway building is no cure for congestion. A study of 70 urban areas over a 15-year period found that those investing heavily in wider roads fared no better in easing congestion than areas that did not."

Full Story: Freeway building no cure for congestion
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 8, 2003
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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