Reducing Traffic Congestion By Reducing Freeway Lanes
13 September 2001 - 5:00am
Whitney Gould asks Milwaukee County, WI, to consider a counter-intuitive idea: to reduce traffic congestion, reduce number of freeway lanes.
"It sounds counterintuitive, if not downright crazy. But using computer modeling, a reform-minded Florida transportation engineer named Walter Kulash has determined that if you remove lanes from urban freeways, you may actually reduce congestion. How?...Wider roads siphon traffic from other routes and invite motorists to increase the number and length of trips they might otherwise consolidate. Development follows the cars, worsening congestion."
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 9, 2001
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