why does adding more traffic lanes doesn’t help to alleviate traffic congestion?

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why does adding more traffic lanes doesn’t help to alleviate traffic congestion?

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A big part of it has to do with a phenomenon called induced demand. When you make driving easier and quicker, like by adding lanes or bypasses or freeways or reconfiguring intersections, you get more people into cars, until it reaches capacity and then you are back at square one, and then you end up with Los Angeles.

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