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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In the vast majority of cases more lanes do reduce congestion. There are a small number of instances where it doesn’t due to poor road network design, but those are very much the exception. Unfortunately a lot of NIMBYs will use facts like this to block any new infrastructure construction, which is probably why you believe this misnomer.

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