eli5: would adding more lanes to a freeway/busy street really ease congestion or would you still get bottlenecks?

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I mean theoretically adding a lane or two should allow more cars to flow through, or would bad drivers still cause bottlenecks/gridlock despite the added capacity?

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actually adding more lanes will make traffic worse, this happened in Texas where the government took like 2M$ of tax money, and made a highway 28 lanes, and it then took longer to get through like 20 minutes longer, this video explains why

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