why does adding more traffic lanes doesn’t help to alleviate traffic congestion?
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I once saw a YouTube video where they compared traffic to ants, and explained why ants don’t get stuck in traffic jams. They seemed to suggest that traffic’s mainly caused by impatient drivers trying to change lanes constantly and cut in front of each other (whereas ants don’t have this since they work together). I guess adding lanes helps a bit, but also means more lanes for people to move around in and slow things down for everyone else.
I would also assume that if a road’s already at or near capacity, adding more lanes would just attract more people from other roads to use this one.
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